South Carolina
Articles about South Carolina from The Crisis (1910-1934)
South Carolina (16 articles)
Articles from The Crisis that focus on South Carolina.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 (Feb) | Education | In The Crisis (1911), W.E.B. Du Bois exposes systemic racial injustice in education, citing stark attendance, funding, and term-length disparities. |
| 1911 (Feb) | Pink Franklin | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) lambastes racial injustice in Pink Franklin’s commuted sentence, exposing Southern law bowed to mob prejudice. |
| 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. |
| 1914 (Jan) | Free, White and Twenty One | In 1914 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges “free, white and twenty-one” citizens to join the NAACP, arguing race prejudice endangers democracy and labor. |
| 1917 (May) | A Moral Void | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) condemns Southern moral failure as governors ignore anti-Black lynching, praising Ohio’s pursuit of justice. |
| 1918 (Feb) | Tillman | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) argues Tillman’s death signals a turn in Southern labor and race politics toward Black enfranchisement. |
| 1919 (Mar) | The American Legion | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) condemns the American Legion’s racial exclusion of Black veterans and urges organized resistance to defend democracy. |
| 1919 (Apr) | Byrnes | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) condemns Rep. Byrnes for defending disenfranchisement and white supremacist violence, urging legal action |
| 1920 (Jan) | American Legion, Again | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black veterans to join the American Legion, fight racial exclusion, and defend democracy. |
| 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. |
| 1921 (Jan) | Mount Hermon | In 1921 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns racial inequality in education, exposing philanthropy’s excuses and stark funding gaps for Black schools. |
| 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. |
| 1926 (May) | Crime | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1926) that racist myths of Black criminality are false; crime stems from poverty, ignorance, and state oppression, not race. |
| 1927 (Mar) | Aiken | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) condemns Aiken’s lynchocracy: Klan rule, racial violence, and democratic failure with officials complicit. |
| 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. |
| 1934 (Mar) | Separation and Self-Respect | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) argues segregation harms race and democracy, urging Black self-organization, pride, and fight for quality education. |
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