Voting rights
Articles documenting disfranchisement, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and the fight for Black political power.
Voting rights (16 articles)
Articles documenting disfranchisement, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, and the fight for Black political power.
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1912 (Mar) | The Justice of Woman Suffrage | Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that denying women suffrage harms democracy and racial justice, urging equal political rights for women. |
| 1912 (May) | The Last Word in Politics | In The Crisis (1912), W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black voters to weigh race and democracy over party promises, endorsing a risky test of Wilson. |
| 1915 (May) | The Republicans | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) exposes how Republican Party rules quietly disfranchised Southern Black delegates, undermining democracy and race justice. |
| 1915 (May) | Woman Suffrage | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) rebukes anti-suffrage claims and affirms that women’s labor, equality, and democratic rights require the vote. |
| 1915 (Jun) | Booker T. Washington | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) praises Booker T. Washington’s gains in Black education but faults him for aiding disfranchisement and color caste |
| 1916 (Feb) | An Open Letter to Robert Russa Moton | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) urges Tuskegee leader Moton to defend Black voting rights, equal education, and oppose Jim Crow segregation. |
| 1917 (Jun) | Resolutions of the Washington Conference | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) urges Black Americans to join the war effort and demands race justice: voting, education, end to lynching and Jim Crow. |
| 1920 (Apr) | Southern Representatives | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Republicans to cut Southern representation to punish Jim Crow disenfranchisement and defend Black voting. |
| 1921 (Feb) | Reduced Representation in Congress | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) urges reducing Southern congressional seats under the 14th Amendment to punish disfranchisement and defend democracy. |
| 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. |
| 1921 (Dec) | President Harding and Social Equality | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) condemns Harding’s attack on social equality, defends racial equality, education and democracy; warns against segregation. |
| 1922 (May) | Inter-Racial Comity | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1922) urges interracial committees to act on race, the vote, Jim Crow, peonage and mob-law, warning against complacency. |
| 1925 (Jun) | The Firing Line | In 1925 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues the U.S., not Africa or the West Indies, is the racial firing line, urging democratic struggle and voting rights. |
| 1927 (Apr) | The Higher Friction | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) argues racial friction moves up to higher stakes—voting, education, lynching, housing—measuring uneven Black progress. |
| 1930 (Feb) | Smuts | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1930) exposes Jan Smuts’ white-supremacist vision, arguing it denies Black education, labor, and democratic rights. |
| 1933 (Jun) | The Strategy of the Negro Voter | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1933) urges Black voters to adopt opportunist tactics—protecting survival while pressing racial, labor and democratic reforms. |
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