Voting rights (African Americans)
Articles on Voting rights (African Americans) from The Crisis (1910-1934)
Voting rights (African Americans) (11 articles)
Articles on Voting rights (African Americans) from The Crisis (1910-1934)
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| Date | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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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