Northern United States
Articles about Northern United States from The Crisis (1910-1934)
Northern United States (21 articles)
Articles from The Crisis that focus on Northern United States.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 (Jan) | Except Servants | Critiques racial prejudice that welcomes ‘servants’ but excludes Black people, exposing caste and labor bias. |
| 1912 (Jan) | Organized Labor | Shows organized labor excluding Black workers and white-supremacist union tactics, urging labor to serve humanity. |
| 1912 (Feb) | Ohio | Argues in The Crisis (1912) that Ohio women’s suffrage boosts Black political influence, linking democracy, race and labor to win freedom. |
| 1912 (Apr) | In God’s Gardens | Argues for North–South unity and an interracial future, urging democracy beyond fear and prejudice. |
| 1912 (Apr) | The Servant in the South | Shows how Southern house service exploits Black labor with low pay and abuse, urging dignity, fair wages, and reform. |
| 1913 (Jan) | Our Own Consent | Argues that collective protest against Jim Crow and disfranchisement can force America to face racial injustice. |
| 1913 (Jun) | Education | Urges Americans to confront the race problem through education and hard knowledge, not cowardly denial. |
| 1916 (Apr) | Migration | Urges Black southerners to migrate North to escape lynching, gain education and labor opportunities. |
| 1917 (Mar) | The Tuskegee Resolutions | Denounces Tuskegee resolutions for urging Black labor to remain South while ignoring lynching and legal injustice. |
| 1917 (May) | The Migration | Argues Black labor’s Great Migration meets Northern demand, exposes Southern racial hypocrisy and threats to Black freedom. |
| 1919 (Jan) | Jim Crow | Analyzes Jim Crow’’s paradox: segregation undermines rights yet spurs Black institutions, urging race unity and prudence. |
| 1919 (Jun) | Votes | Argues Black suffrage is the central racial struggle: Northern voters can restore democracy, end Southern disfranchisement. |
| 1920 (Jan) | Brothers, Come North | Urges Black migration North for labor, education, and democracy, condemning Southern lynching and Jim Crow. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Of Problems | Criticizes racial double standards that deny Black social equality, voting rights and self‑defense. |
| 1921 (Apr) | Socialism and the Negro | Critiques socialism’s promise for Black labor, urging cautious, evolutionary reform amid race and imperialism. |
| 1927 (Nov) | Smith | Argues Governor Smith’s nomination would expose Southern racism and could shatter the Solid South, advancing democracy. |
| 1928 (Dec) | The Campaign of 1928 | Condemns both parties’ betrayal of Black voters and urges a Third Party for racial justice, labor rights and democracy. |
| 1930 (Aug) | Economic Disenfranchisement | Argues industrial disfranchisement bars Black labor and urges public ownership to secure racial democracy and fair work. |
| 1932 (Sep) | Employment | Argues segregated schools and narrow college curricula block Black graduates’ employment and hinder race and democracy. |
| 1933 (Jan) | Toward a New Racial Philosophy | Urges a new racial philosophy: a 12-part reexamination of race, education, labor, health, law and democracy. |
| 1934 (Apr) | Segregation in the North | Argues Northern segregation is growing and urges Black economic self-organization, education and boycotts. |
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