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 | Exposes Southern lies about Black suffrage, documenting racial disfranchisement and threats to democracy. |
| 1911 (Jan) | Discrimination | Condemns race-based segregation as dehumanizing, a caste undermining democracy, education, and civil life. |
| 1911 (Mar) | The White Primary | Shows how the white primary lets party bosses bar Black voters, disenfranchising citizens and threatening democracy. |
| 1911 (Apr) | Smith Jones | Exposes how race blocks a Black poet’s access to education, criminalizing ambition and denying opportunity. |
| 1911 (Apr) | Knowledge | Rebukes Southern "knowledge," using census data on suicide and nervous disease to expose false racial claims. |
| 1911 (Jun) | Christmas Gift | Calls the 1911 vote a Christmas gift for Black voters, detailing disenfranchisement battles and political leverage. |
| 1914 (Feb) | The Negro and the Land | Argues that disenfranchisement, education cuts and segregationist laws actively block Black land ownership and democracy. |
| 1914 (Jun) | Senators’ Records | Exposes Senate suffrage debates invoking race, naming senators who backed disfranchisement and threatened democracy. |
| 1915 (Feb) | The Lynching Industry | Documents the 1914 lynching industry, exposing racial violence and the hypocrisy undermining American democracy. |
| 1916 (May) | Social Equality | Condemns white Southern efforts to re-enslave and argues education and interracial contact are vital for race equality. |
| 1917 (Jun) | The Migration of Negroes | Documents Black migration as a labor and rights exodus driven by lynching, disfranchisement, boll weevil and low wages. |
| 1918 (Apr) | The Republican Party | Condemns the Republican Party as anti-Black and reactionary, exposing racial exclusion in party politics. |
| 1919 (May) | Flaming Arrows | Argues Wilson’s rhetoric of democracy and justice exposes U.S. racial hypocrisy toward Black and colonized peoples. |
| 1920 (Apr) | Every Four Years | Denounces the Republican Party for buying Southern delegates, betraying Black leaders and enabling disfranchisement. |
| 1920 (Apr) | Remember | Warns that the South’s fragile power relies on racial disfranchisement and urges federal defense of democracy. |
| 1920 (Jun) | Mississippi | Documents how Mississippi laws and mobs criminalize race equality, censor Black speech, and enforce vigilante terror. |
| 1920 (Jul) | Race Intelligence | Dismantles racist intelligence tests, exposing flawed science that limits Black education and labor prospects. |
| 1920 (Dec) | Pontius Pilate | Casts Pilate as complicit in racial injustice, condemning lynching and white supremacy’s mockery of justice. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Lynchings and Mobs | Exposes how southern police, courts and press enforce racial terror—lynching, mob rule, and denial of justice. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Politics and Power | Exposes how disfranchisement and racist tax and school policies in Mississippi deny Black education, democracy, and services. |
| 1921 (Apr) | The Liberal South | Challenges the liberal South and urges white leaders to secure Black rights: vote, end Jim‑Crow travel, education, lynching. |
| 1922 (May) | Slavery | Condemns ongoing slavery and racial labor exploitation in the South and demands justice for Black Americans. |
| 1924 (Apr) | Inter-Marriage | Denounces KKK-backed anti-miscegenation bills, arguing race laws degrade women, marriage, and democracy. |
| 1925 (Jun) | Disenfranchisement | Documents how literacy tests, poll taxes and the White Primary disenfranchise Black voters and hollow democracy. |
| 1925 (Jul) | Ferdinand Q. Morton | Profiles Ferdinand Q. Morton, a Tammany leader using party politics to secure Black representation and jobs. |
| 1926 (Feb) | The Newer South | Critiques the New South’s Jim Crow, lynching, and educational neglect while urging white Southerners to join racial justice. |
| 1926 (May) | Disenfranchisement | Argues in The Crisis (1926) that Southern disenfranchisement of Black voters undermines democracy and fuels white supremacy. |
| 1927 (Apr) | Farmers | Argues Black farmers face systemic exploitation in agriculture and should heed the Farm Bloc and McNary‑Haugen reforms. |
| 1927 (Jul) | Flood | 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 | 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 | A 1928 Crisis report on the 1927 Mississippi flood, documenting how the Red Cross and the Mississippi National Guard ran segregated refugee camps at Vicksburg and coerced Black refugees into forced labor. |
| 1928 (Feb) | Social Equality | 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 | 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 | Argues Hoover’s push for a white-led Southern Republicanism threatens Black suffrage, democracy, and exposes white supremacy. |
| 1930 (Feb) | Education | Denounces racial inequity in schooling, details funding disparities, and urges federal aid requiring nondiscrimination. |
| 1933 (Mar) | Color Caste in the United States | Exposes the U.S. color caste that denies Black rights in marriage, labor, education and democracy. |
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