Lynching and mob violence
Articles on Lynching and mob violence from The Crisis (1910-1934)
Lynching and mob violence (17 articles)
Articles on Lynching and mob violence from The Crisis (1910-1934)
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1911 (Apr) | Hail, Columbia! | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) rebukes America’s leaders for silence as lynchmob violence, racial prejudice and lawlessness imperil democracy. |
| 1911 (Jun) | Jesus Christ in Georgia | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1911), exposes how convict labor and mob violence reveal white supremacy, morally indicting racism and offering redemption. |
| 1913 (Apr) | The Church and the Negro | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) faults the church for promoting racial injustice, exposing Christian hypocrisy and urging labor, education, moral reform. |
| 1913 (Jun) | Logic | In 1913 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues race prejudice inevitably leads to disenfranchisement, lynching, and attacks on Black property and education. |
| 1916 (Jun) | Deception | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) exposes how the southern press racially deceives readers, false-equating North and South and blocking justice. |
| 1917 (Mar) | Awake America | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) urges America to end lynching, disenfranchisement and Jim Crow at home to honestly defend democracy abroad. |
| 1917 (Jun) | The Migration of Negroes | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) documents Black migration as a labor and rights exodus driven by lynching, disfranchisement, boll weevil and low wages. |
| 1918 (Feb) | The Burning at Dyersburg: An N.A.A.C.P. Investigation | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) exposes the NAACP’s investigation of Lation Scott’s brutal burning, revealing racial terror and community complicity. |
| 1919 (Mar) | Signs from the South | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) documents Southern racial violence against Black churches and schools and argues true democracy must include Black citizens. |
| 1920 (Dec) | Pontius Pilate | In The Crisis (1920) W.E.B. Du Bois casts Pilate as complicit in racial injustice, condemning lynching and white supremacy’s mockery of justice. |
| 1921 (Feb) | The World and Us | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1921) that U.S. race caste, lynching, land monopoly and suppression of speech are pushing American democracy backward. |
| 1927 (Feb) | Optimism | In 1927 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis rejects naive optimism, celebrates Black self-assertion in race, education, labor, arts, and legal progress. |
| 1927 (Jul) | Coffeeville, Kanasas | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) exposes racist mob violence in Coffeeville, Kansas, false rape accusations, Black self-defense, and justice failures. |
| 1928 (Mar) | Robert E. Lee | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1928) that commemorating Robert E. Lee masks his role in upholding slavery, urging moral honesty about race and democracy. |
| 1929 (May) | The Negro Citizen | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1929) argues that Black political power—secure voting rights—is essential to democracy, education, labor and racial justice. |
| 1931 (Apr) | Woofterism | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1931) condemns Woofter’s study for ignoring race, disenfranchisement, lynching and labor barriers, urging political power. |
| 1933 (Feb) | Dodging the Issue | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1933) attacks calls for nonresistance, blaming Southern mob violence and economic power for racial injustice. |
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