Virginia

Articles about Virginia from The Crisis (1910-1934)

Virginia (11 articles)

Articles from The Crisis that focus on Virginia.

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Date Title Description
1911 (Jan) The Truth Exposes Southern lies about Black suffrage, documenting racial disfranchisement and threats to democracy.
1912 (Feb) Light Counters the ‘child’ Negro myth, showing Phelps-Stokes-funded education reveals Black humanity beyond stereotype.
1913 (Jun) Logic Argues race prejudice inevitably leads to disenfranchisement, lynching, and attacks on Black property and education.
1919 (Mar) The American Legion Condemns the American Legion’s racial exclusion of Black veterans and urges organized resistance to defend democracy.
1920 (Jan) American Legion, Again Urges Black veterans to join the American Legion, fight racial exclusion, and defend democracy.
1920 (Nov) Suffrage Argues southern suffrage laws mask race-based disenfranchisement, subverting democracy to preserve white supremacy.
1922 (Jan) The Harding Political Plan Condemns Harding’s plan to impose white rule and split Black votes, urging voters to protect race, democracy and the Dyer bill.
1922 (Jan) Mr. Howard Urges Perry Howard and Black officials to reject token roles, defend anti-lynching reform, and uphold race dignity.
1928 (Mar) Robert E. Lee Argues in The Crisis (1928) that commemorating Robert E. Lee masks his role in upholding slavery, urging moral honesty about race and democracy.
1928 (Sep) Howard Exposes bipartisan graft around Perry Howard, condemns black disenfranchisement and threats to democracy.
1928 (Oct) The Possibility of Democracy in America Argues that American democracy is endangered as Black disfranchisement and white oligarchy reshape voting.
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