Texas

Articles about Texas from The Crisis (1910-1934)

Texas (12 articles)

Articles from The Crisis that focus on Texas.

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Date	Title	Description
1910 (Dec)	Advice	Condemns silence on lynching, exposing racial prejudice that silences Black grievance and undermines justice.
1911 (Mar)	Promotion of Prejudice	Exposes syndicated racist editorials that manufacture race prejudice across North and South and threaten democracy.
1914 (Jun)	The Congressmen and the NAACP	Exposes congressmen’s evasions on race, lynching, segregation and intermarriage, urging NAACP political accountability.
1917 (Mar)	Civilization in the South	Condemns Southern culture as entwined with lynching, racist labor hierarchies, and anti-democratic barbarism.
1919 (Apr)	Shillady and Texas	Castigates Texas for lynching, disenfranchisement, and racial violence that deny Blacks land, education, and democracy
1920 (Jan)	American Legion, Again	Urges Black veterans to join the American Legion, fight racial exclusion, and defend democracy.
1920 (Aug)	The Task	Says Shillady’s resignation exposes entrenched white opposition and limits NAACP methods, urging national action on race.
1920 (Nov)	The Social Equality of Whites and Blacks	Defends social equality as a democratic right for all races while advising against interracial marriage in America today.
1923 (Jun)	On Being Crazy	Exposes everyday racial exclusion as irrational cruelty, using vignettes to critique white prejudice.
1924 (Dec)	The Election	Critiques the election’s effects on Black democracy, cataloging gains in representation and losses from Klan resurgence.
1928 (Nov)	A Third Party	Argues the Solid South makes third-party success impossible, tying race, democracy, and labor to electoral power.
1930 (Feb)	Interracial Love in Texas	Counters a Texas editorial, arguing interracial cooperation will drive social equality, race relations, and marriages.