Washington, D.C.
Articles about Washington, D.C. from The Crisis (1910-1934)
Washington, D.C. (60 articles)
Articles from The Crisis that focus on Washington, D.C..
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 (Mar) | The Blair Bill | Urges revival of the Blair Bill, arguing federal education aid is essential for democracy and racial justice. |
| 1912 (May) | The Second Birthday | Argues in The Crisis that a Black press is vital for race publicity and democracy, urging support despite financial struggle. |
| 1912 (Jun) | Education | Argues in The Crisis (1912) that education should train minds for life, not just trades, urging broad schooling for Black children and democracy. |
| 1912 (Jun) | The Black Mother | Condemns the ‘mammy’ myth, urging respect for Black motherhood, economic justice, and dignity in domestic labor. |
| 1913 (Feb) | Burleson | Condemns Burleson’s push to segregate the federal civil service, links race exclusion to lynching, and urges action. |
| 1913 (Apr) | Hail Columbia | Condemns white supremacy and gendered violence at the suffrage parade, exposing racial hypocrisy and threats to democracy. |
| 1913 (May) | Woman’s Suffrage | Celebrates defeats of the color line in women’s suffrage and urges Black men and women to fight for a race-blind democracy. |
| 1913 (Jun) | Education | Warns democracy is at risk unless lynching, disfranchisement and racial discrimination are confronted. |
| 1913 (Nov) | Another Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson | Denounces federal segregation, warns Wilson this assault on race, democracy, and votes will cost political support. |
| 1914 (Mar) | Booming The Crisis | Defends The Crisis’s independence, rebukes the Washington Bee, critiques race weeklies’ facts and urges principled advocacy. |
| 1914 (Mar) | A Crusade | Urges a new abolitionist crusade for race justice and democracy, calling for mass organization and support for the NAACP. |
| 1914 (Jun) | Senators’ Records | Exposes Senate suffrage debates invoking race, naming senators who backed disfranchisement and threatened democracy. |
| 1914 (Jun) | Y.M.C.A | Praises Black YMCAs’ growth but condemns YMCA racial segregation as unchristian, unjust, and dangerous to race justice. |
| 1915 (Feb) | The President | Sharply criticizes President Wilson’s insincere, Jim-Crow-promoting stance that betrays race and democracy. |
| 1915 (Mar) | A Pageant | Launches the Horizon Guild to stage pageants of Negro history, advancing race pride, democracy, and cultural education. |
| 1915 (May) | Credit | Urges unity: credit for resisting racist legislation belongs to collective Black agitation and NAACP-led democracy fights. |
| 1915 (May) | The Fourteenth Amendment | Urges Congress to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment and reduce Southern representation to protect Black democracy. |
| 1915 (Jun) | Haiti | Exposes U.S. intervention in Haiti as racial domination, linking State Dept. policy to lynching and white supremacy. |
| 1915 (Jun) | The Star of Ethiopia | Recounts staging The Star of Ethiopia pageant in The Crisis, showing race pride, education, and community triumph. |
| 1916 (Feb) | The Drama Among Black Folk | Champions Black pageantry as folk drama and racial education, shows its artistic promise and financial neglect. |
| 1916 (Mar) | Brandeis | Argues Brandeis’s nomination brings a minority, labor‑friendly voice to the Supreme Court to advance race and democracy. |
| 1916 (May) | The Pageant | Spotlights a mass Pageant celebrating the AME Church’s centennial, staging Black religious history and racial pride. |
| 1916 (May) | The Pageant | Depicts a 1,250‑person Pageant marking the AME Church centennial and asserting Black civic pride. |
| 1917 (Jan) | Justice | Condemns the Justice Department’s racial hypocrisy, ignoring lynching and disfranchisement while policing alleged German plots. |
| 1918 (Jan) | Thirteen | Praises the NAACP as the most effective defender of Black civil rights, fighting disenfranchisement, segregation, lynching. |
| 1918 (Feb) | The Railroads | Argues federal control of railroads can end Jim Crow, open union jobs to Black workers, and strengthen Black democracy. |
| 1918 (Feb) | Help Us to Help | Urges redress of racial grievances—better travel, equal aid, suppression of lynching, securing democracy and war loyalty. |
| 1918 (Mar) | A Momentous Proposal | Defends accepting a military commission to advance Black rights, lamenting the government’s shelving of a race-bureau plan. |
| 1919 (Mar) | Let us Reason Together | Urges Black self-defense against lynching while warning against vengeful violence to uphold law, honor, and democracy. |
| 1919 (Mar) | The Riots: An N.A.A.C.P. Investigation | Johnson, James Weldon in The Crisis (1919) examines the Washington race riots, documenting mob violence and Black residents’ determined self-defense. |
| 1919 (Mar) | The American Legion | Condemns the American Legion’s racial exclusion of Black veterans and urges organized resistance to defend democracy. |
| 1919 (Apr) | Byrnes | W.E.B. in The Crisis (1919) argues Congressman Byrnes represents disfranchisement, lynching and wage theft, urging Fourteenth Amendment action. |
| 1919 (May) | Letters | Urges southern white women to challenge disfranchisement, Jim Crow, lynching, and racial inequality in education and labor. |
| 1919 (May) | Returning Soldiers | Returns from war to demand racial justice, condemning lynching, disenfranchisement, and economic theft. |
| 1919 (May) | Robert R. Moton | Criticizes R.R. Moton for sidelining Black troops, abandoning Pan-African work, and enabling racial deference. |
| 1920 (Jan) | Sex Equality | Denounces AG Palmer for calling interracial marriage "sex equality," exposes hypocrisy and defends Black rights to marry. |
| 1920 (Feb) | Danger | Warns that a bill making ‘racial’ appeals unmailable would silence Black voices and endanger democracy. |
| 1920 (Feb) | A Matter of Manners | Argues that perceptions of Black manners provoke racial violence and lynching, exposing systemic injustice. |
| 1920 (Apr) | Persecution | Condemns the persecution of educator Roscoe C. Bruce, urging Black Washington to end infighting that harms education. |
| 1920 (Nov) | Progress | Says Black selfhood, education, labor organizing and business enterprise fueled rapid racial progress since emancipation. |
| 1921 (Jan) | Chicago | Warns that Illinois’ Inter-Racial Commission masks a segregation agenda, using questionnaires to trap Black leaders. |
| 1921 (Jan) | Amity | Argues interracial amity and frank dialogue will heal race injustice and strengthen American democracy. |
| 1921 (Apr) | Haiti | Urges Americans to demand U.S. withdrawal from Haiti, condemning imperialism and defending Black democracy. |
| 1922 (Sep) | Flipper | Documents racial injustice in Lt. H.O. Flipper’s 1882 dismissal and calls for congressional redress and rank restoration. |
| 1923 (Jan) | Intentions | Condemns partisan betrayal over the Dyer anti‑lynching bill and urges Black political power, sustained fight for democracy. |
| 1923 (Jan) | The Tuskegee Hospital | (1923, The Crisis) condemns Tuskegee Hospital’s racial segregation and political control, arguing it endangers Black veterans’ health and dignity. |
| 1924 (Dec) | The Election | Critiques the election’s effects on Black democracy, cataloging gains in representation and losses from Klan resurgence. |
| 1925 (Jun) | The Black Man and Labor | Urges Black labor solidarity, defends Pullman porters’ unionizing, and calls for openness to Soviet industrial reforms. |
| 1926 (Jan) | Our Book Shelf | Lauds Alain Locke’s The New Negro as a racial renaissance—propaganda for life and liberty, warning art must serve struggle. |
| 1926 (May) | Lynching | Argues in The Crisis (1926) that lynching endures, urges Congress to pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, and reveals racial injustice. |
| 1927 (Nov) | Social Equals | Critiques racial etiquette: a Black doctor’s refused fee reveals persistent Southern prejudice and barriers to social equality. |
| 1928 (Jun) | Darrow | In The Crisis (1928), honors Clarence Darrow’s defense of labor and Black rights, and attacks ministers who favor creed over deeds. |
| 1928 (Sep) | Booze | Exposes white hypocrisy in Republican politics, revealing how race and gender shape democracy in The Crisis, 1928, Booze. |
| 1928 (Dec) | Segregation | Chronicles federal workplace segregation’s rollback in Washington and calls for legal fights against racial discrimination. |
| 1929 (Feb) | The National Interracial Conference | Calls for coordinated interracial study and annual conferences to address race, education, health, labor, and suffrage. |
| 1929 (May) | The Negro Citizen | Argues that Black political power—secure voting rights—is essential to democracy, education, labor and racial justice. |
| 1930 (May) | The Capital N | Argues that capitalizing Negro affirms racial self-respect and records a press shift tied to civil-rights advocacy. |
| 1932 (Feb) | The Non-Partisan Conference | Denounces a tepid economic plank, urging Black political power for labor, redistribution and emancipation. |
| 1932 (Apr) | Again Howard | Denounces sabotage of Howard’s finances by trustees and white real-estate interests, urging reform in Black education. |
| 1934 (May) | Segregation | Defends pragmatic battles against segregation, arguing segregated housing can alleviate Black poverty and uplift. |
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