Voting rights (African Americans)

Articles on Voting rights (African Americans) from The Crisis (1910-1934)

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Articles on Voting rights (African Americans) from The Crisis (1910-1934)

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1913 (Mar) An Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson In 1913 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges Woodrow Wilson to defend Black civil rights—voting, education, labor access—and end lynching to save democracy.
1914 (Feb) Don’t Be Bitter 1914: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis rejects pleas to ‘not be bitter,’ arguing Black Americans’ calm demands for voting rights, racial justice, and dignity.
1915 (Jan) Agility In 1915 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns suffragist evasions that defend white supremacy and betray democracy and Black women’s rights.
1917 (Jun) The Second Coming W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) uses a prophetic allegory to expose white racial fear and envision Black emergence and social change.
1918 (May) Votes for Women W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) urges Black voters to back woman suffrage as a moral and democratic defense against racial disfranchisement.
1919 (Jun) The Ballot In The Crisis (1919), W.E.B. Du Bois demands the ballot for Black WWI veterans, arguing democracy and education must end race-based disenfranchisement.
1920 (Mar) Forward W.E.B. Du Bois urges in The Crisis (1920) a renewed NAACP campaign against lynching, Jim Crow, and for the Black ballot and racial democracy.
1920 (May) Atlanta In The Crisis (1920), W.E.B. Du Bois demands voting rights, an end to lynching and Jim Crow, and equal education, labor, and racial democracy.
1920 (Jul) In Georgia W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) declares the NAACP’s Atlanta meeting an epoch: Black demands for vote, anti-lynching, education, labor and full democracy.
1921 (Jun) The Rising Truth W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) exposes southern racial terror and white hypocrisy and insists education and the ballot are crucial for democracy.
1925 (Mar) Radicals and the Negro 1925: W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis that radicals must include Black emancipation—voting, education, labor and anti-lynching—to defend American democracy.
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