Mississippi
Articles about Mississippi from The Crisis (1910-1934)
Mississippi (36 articles)
Articles from The Crisis that focus on Mississippi.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 (Jan) | The Truth | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1911), exposes Southern lies about Black suffrage, documenting racial disfranchisement and threats to democracy. |
| 1911 (Jan) | Discrimination | In 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns race-based segregation as dehumanizing, a caste undermining democracy, education, and civil life. |
| 1911 (Mar) | The White Primary | In The Crisis (1911) W.E.B. Du Bois shows how the white primary lets party bosses bar Black voters, disenfranchising citizens and threatening democracy. |
| 1911 (Apr) | Smith Jones | In a 1911 Crisis piece W.E.B. Du Bois exposes how race blocks a Black poet’s access to education, criminalizing ambition and denying opportunity. |
| 1911 (Apr) | Knowledge | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) rebukes Southern “knowledge,” using census data on suicide and nervous disease to expose false racial claims. |
| 1911 (Jun) | Christmas Gift | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1911), calls the 1911 vote a Christmas gift for Black voters, detailing disenfranchisement battles and political leverage. |
| 1914 (Feb) | The Negro and the Land | In The Crisis (1914), W.E.B. Du Bois argues that disenfranchisement, education cuts and segregationist laws actively block Black land ownership and democracy. |
| 1914 (Jun) | Senators’ Records | In 1914 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis exposes Senate suffrage debates invoking race, naming senators who backed disfranchisement and threatened democracy. |
| 1915 (Feb) | The Lynching Industry | In 1915 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois documents the 1914 lynching industry, exposing racial violence and the hypocrisy undermining American democracy. |
| 1916 (May) | Social Equality | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) condemns white Southern efforts to re-enslave and argues education and interracial contact are vital for race equality. |
| 1917 (Jun) | The Migration of Negroes | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) documents Black migration as a labor and rights exodus driven by lynching, disfranchisement, boll weevil and low wages. |
| 1918 (Apr) | The Republican Party | In The Crisis (1918), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns the Republican Party as anti-Black and reactionary, exposing racial exclusion in party politics. |
| 1919 (May) | Flaming Arrows | In The Crisis (1919) W.E.B. Du Bois argues Wilson’s rhetoric of democracy and justice exposes U.S. racial hypocrisy toward Black and colonized peoples. |
| 1920 (Apr) | Every Four Years | In The Crisis (1920), W.E.B. Du Bois denounces the Republican Party for buying Southern delegates, betraying Black leaders and enabling disfranchisement. |
| 1920 (Apr) | Remember | In The Crisis (1920), W.E.B. Du Bois warns that the South’s fragile power relies on racial disfranchisement and urges federal defense of democracy. |
| 1920 (Jun) | Mississippi | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) documents how Mississippi laws and mobs criminalize race equality, censor Black speech, and enforce vigilante terror. |
| 1920 (Jul) | Race Intelligence | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois dismantles racist intelligence tests, exposing flawed science that limits Black education and labor prospects. |
| 1920 (Dec) | Pontius Pilate | In The Crisis (1920) W.E.B. Du Bois casts Pilate as complicit in racial injustice, condemning lynching and white supremacy’s mockery of justice. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Lynchings and Mobs | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) exposes how southern police, courts and press enforce racial terror—lynching, mob rule, and denial of justice. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Politics and Power | 1921: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis exposes how disfranchisement and racist tax and school policies in Mississippi deny Black education, democracy, and services. |
| 1921 (Apr) | The Liberal South | In 1921 The Crisis W.E.B. Du Bois challenges the liberal South and urges white leaders to secure Black rights: vote, end Jim‑Crow travel, education, lynching. |
| 1922 (May) | Slavery | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1922), condemns ongoing slavery and racial labor exploitation in the South and demands justice for Black Americans. |
| 1924 (Apr) | Inter-Marriage | In 1924 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis denounces KKK-backed anti-miscegenation bills, arguing race laws degrade women, marriage, and democracy. |
| 1925 (Jun) | Disenfranchisement | In a 1925 essay for The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois documents how literacy tests, poll taxes and the White Primary disenfranchise Black voters and hollow democracy. |
| 1925 (Jul) | Ferdinand Q. Morton | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1925) profiles Ferdinand Q. Morton, a Tammany leader using party politics to secure Black representation and jobs. |
| 1926 (Feb) | The Newer South | In The Crisis (1926), W.E.B. Du Bois critiques the New South’s Jim Crow, lynching, and educational neglect while urging white Southerners to join racial justice. |
| 1926 (May) | Disenfranchisement | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1926) that Southern disenfranchisement of Black voters undermines democracy and fuels white supremacy. |
| 1927 (Apr) | Farmers | In 1927 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues Black farmers face systemic exploitation in agriculture and should heed the Farm Bloc and McNary‑Haugen reforms. |
| 1927 (Jul) | Flood | In 1927 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black refugees to flee Southern racial terror—documenting lynching, exploitative relief, and labor coercion. |
| 1927 (Oct) | Wallace Battle, the Episcopal Church and Mississippi: A Story of Suppressed Truth | 1927: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis exposes Episcopal Church suppression of news about a Mississippi school’s murder, indicting racial injustice and betrayal of education |
| 1928 (Jan) | The Flood, the Red Cross and the National Guard | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1928) exposes how Red Cross relief and the Mississippi National Guard coerced Black refugees into labor and racial oppression. |
| 1928 (Feb) | Social Equality | W.E.B. Du Bois, writing in The Crisis (1928), argues for social equality over color-line policy, urging open interracial contact and equal opportunity. |
| 1928 (Feb) | The Flood, the Red Cross and the National Guard | W.E.B. Du Bois reveals in The Crisis 1928 how 1927 Mississippi flood relief, guided by Red Cross and National Guard, exploited Black labor and spurred migration. |
| 1929 (May) | Herbert Hoover and the South | W.E.B. Du Bois, The Crisis (1929) argues Hoover’s push for a white-led Southern Republicanism threatens Black suffrage, democracy, and exposes white supremacy. |
| 1930 (Feb) | Education | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1930) denounces racial inequity in schooling, details funding disparities, and urges federal aid requiring nondiscrimination. |
| 1933 (Mar) | Color Caste in the United States | In The Crisis (1933) W.E.B. Du Bois exposes the U.S. color caste that denies Black rights in marriage, labor, education and democracy. |
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