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| Date | Title | Description | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 (Mar) | Editing The Crisis | In 1951 W.E.B. Du Bois recounts founding and editing The Crisis, showing how editorial independence and reportage advanced race, democracy, and the NAACP. | 2,443 words |
| 1947 (Oct) | The Freeing of India | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1947) condemns British imperialism, hails India’s liberation and warns of partition, poverty, education and labor struggles. | 3,208 words |
| 1934 (Aug) | Dr. Du Bois Resigns | W.E.B. Du Bois resigns (1934). In The Crisis he accuses NAACP leadership of failing Black people on race, organization, and economic strategy, urging reform. | 1,645 words |
| 1934 (Jun) | Counsels of Despair | In The Crisis (1934) W.E.B. Du Bois rejects counsels of despair, urging race uplift through education, institutions, and strategic anti-segregation action. | 2,698 words |
| 1934 (May) | Grand Jury Adjourns: Laurens County Fails to Indict Dendy Lynchers | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) exposes how Laurens County’s grand jury shields a white mob in the Norris Dendy lynching, revealing racial injustice and impunity. | 1,249 words |
| 1934 (May) | Westward Ho | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) argues Midwest adult education fosters democracy, reduces race prejudice, yet demands active resistance to segregation. | 1,006 words |
| 1934 (May) | Segregation | In a 1934 Crisis essay W.E.B. Du Bois defends pragmatic battles against segregation, arguing segregated housing can alleviate Black poverty and uplift. | 533 words |
| 1934 (May) | William Monroe Trotter | 1934 The Crisis: W.E.B. Du Bois eulogizes Monroe Trotter, lauds his fight against racial segregation, and warns that organized civil-rights unity can prevail. | 1,250 words |
| 1934 (May) | Violence | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) warns that violence, given U.S. demographics, would provoke white backlash, justify repression, and imperil Black democracy. | 550 words |
| 1934 (Apr) | Segregation in the North | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) argues Northern segregation is growing and urges Black economic self-organization, education and boycotts. | 3,361 words |
| 1934 (Mar) | Subsistence Homestead Colonies | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1934) that subsistence homestead colonies can empower Black workers, countering racial labor inequality. | 539 words |
| 1934 (Mar) | Separation and Self-Respect | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) argues segregation harms race and democracy, urging Black self-organization, pride, and fight for quality education. | 505 words |
| 1934 (Mar) | History of Segregation Philosophy | In 1934 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues segregation grew from economic labor caste, forcing Black self-organization and challenging American democracy. | 1,293 words |
| 1934 (Feb) | The N.A.A.C.P. and Race Segregation | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) explains the NAACP’s pragmatic fight against race segregation—defending civil rights, schools, hospitals, and democracy. | 1,980 words |
| 1934 (Jan) | Segregation | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) argues voluntary Black self-organization counters racial discrimination and advances economic, educational and labor justice. | 701 words |
| 1934 (Jan) | Scottsboro | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1934) condemns Scottsboro trials as racial injustice — Southern courts using law to punish Black lives for profit and prejudice. | 306 words |
| 1933 (Dec) | A Matter of Manners | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1933) criticizes how Southern racial insults erode Black manners and urges reclaiming courtesy as dignity and self-respect. | 595 words |
| 1933 (Dec) | The A.F. of L. | In 1933 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis denounces the A.F. of L. as a racist, pro-capitalist labor elite that betrays mass labor and democracy. | 611 words |
| 1933 (Dec) | Too Rich to be a Nigger | In 1933 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis documents how white backlash to Black education and prosperity culminated in lynching, exposing racial terror. | 1,540 words |
| 1933 (Dec) | Peace | In a 1933 essay for The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues war propaganda and racial fear sustain militarism, urging pacifists to attack race prejudice and arms. | 433 words |
| 1933 (Oct) | Pan-Africa and New Racial Philosophy | In 1933 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Pan‑African unity to confront racial labor exploitation and economic injustice, reclaiming Black agency. | 1,320 words |
| 1933 (Oct) | The Church and Religion | In a 1933 Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois critiques organized churches for claiming absolute truth, urging ethical faith and intellectual freedom for Black youth. | 1,210 words |
| 1933 (Oct) | Youth and Age at Amenia | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1933) reports the Amenia Conference urging youth–age dialogue to make race, labor, education central to democratic economic reform | 2,288 words |
| 1933 (Sep) | On Being Ashamed of Oneself | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1933) urges organized racial pride and economic action, diagnosing shame, segregation, and labor exclusion. | 2,264 words |
| 1933 (Aug) | The Negro College | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1933) that Negro colleges must root education in Black experience to defend democracy, labor and race rights. | 3,860 words |
| 1933 (Jul) | Our Class Struggle | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1933) argues Black class struggle pits labor against white capital and urges racial solidarity for delinquents and dependents. | 1,264 words |
| 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. | 2,287 words |
| 1933 (May) | Marxism and The Negro Problem | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1933) argues Marxism explains class exploitation but must be adapted to U.S. race and labor realities to protect Black democracy. | 2,712 words |
| 1933 (May) | Scottsboro | In 1933 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Scottsboro as proof that racial disfranchisement destroys justice and demands Black political voice. | 304 words |
| 1933 (Apr) | The Right to Work | In The Crisis (1933) W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black Americans to build cooperative consumer-producer economies to secure labor, race, and democratic power. | 1,310 words |
| 1933 (Mar) | Color Caste in the United States | In The Crisis (1933) W.E.B. Du Bois exposes the U.S. color caste that denies Black rights in marriage, labor, education and democracy. | 2,233 words |
| 1933 (Mar) | Karl Marx and the Negro | In 1933 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues Karl Marx grasped labor and opposed slavery, and his theory sheds light on the Black struggle for democracy. | 1,681 words |
| 1933 (Feb) | It is a Girl | In a 1933 essay in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois challenges boy-preference as a relic of barbarism, urging equal opportunity, education and labor for girls. | 372 words |
| 1933 (Feb) | Our Rate of Increase | In 1933 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis analyzes Black population decline in birth rate, urging attention to race, health, education and the quality of future generations. | 337 words |
| 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. | 329 words |
| 1933 (Feb) | Our Health | In 1933 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis links poverty and racial discrimination to high Black death rates and urges income, public health, and anti-segregation action. | 486 words |
| 1933 (Jan) | Listen, Japan and China | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1933) urges China and Japan to unite against Western imperialism, claim racial leadership, and defend Asia. | 325 words |
| 1933 (Jan) | Toward a New Racial Philosophy | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1933) urges a new racial philosophy: a 12-part reexamination of race, education, labor, health, law and democracy. | 1,959 words |
| 1932 (Dec) | From a Traveller | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1932) defends Liberia as a real chance for Black democracy, exposing foreign capital, graft, forced labor, and colonial racism | 731 words |
| 1932 (Nov) | If I Had a Million Dollars: A Review of the Phelps Stokes Fund | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1932) faults the Phelps Stokes Fund for favoring surveys and white education over Black scholarships and leadership | 1,137 words |
| 1932 (Nov) | Herbert Hoover | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1932) indicts Herbert Hoover for ‘Lily-White’ politics, race-based appointments, and policies that crush Black labor and democracy | 1,633 words |
| 1932 (Sep) | Employment | In The Crisis (1932), W.E.B. Du Bois argues segregated schools and narrow college curricula block Black graduates’ employment and hinder race and democracy. | 539 words |
| 1932 (Sep) | Young Voters | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1932) urges young Black Southerners to register, organize, and vote to combat racial disenfranchisement and local discrimination. | 571 words |
| 1932 (Aug) | Blaine of Maine | In a 1932 piece for The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns revisionist Civil War myths, defending truth on slavery, Reconstruction, race and democracy. | 913 words |
| 1932 (Apr) | Courts and Jails | In The Crisis (1932), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Black churches’ and charities’ neglect of incarcerated Black people and exposes race-based injustice in courts. | 528 words |
| 1932 (Apr) | A Platform for Radicals | In 1932 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges radical fiscal transparency—public incomes, property, worker registries—to defend democracy and labor. | 149 words |
| 1932 (Apr) | Again Howard | In 1932 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis denounces sabotage of Howard’s finances by trustees and white real-estate interests, urging reform in Black education. | 354 words |
| 1932 (Mar) | To Your Tents, Oh Israel! | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1932) calls for Black economic self-help: use education and labor skills to build a racial economy, redirecting capital. | 592 words |
| 1932 (Mar) | Dalton, GA | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1932) documents how racial segregation in Dalton, GA denied injured Black patients hospital care, causing deaths and injustice | 3,148 words |
| 1932 (Mar) | Hawaii | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1932) warns that economic exploitation, racial law bias, and U.S. military power threaten democracy and race relations in Hawaii. | 534 words |
| 1932 (Feb) | Lynchings | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1932) exposes lynching as racial caste violence that thrives on denied education, economic oppression, and lack of human rights. | 413 words |
| 1932 (Feb) | The Non-Partisan Conference | In 1932 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis denounces a tepid economic plank, urging Black political power for labor, redistribution and emancipation. | 798 words |
| 1932 (Jan) | John Brown | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1932) denounces a pro-Confederate monument at Harpers Ferry, exposing racialized memory and denial of Black resistance. | 336 words |
| 1931 (Sep) | The Negro and Communism | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1931) critiques Communist tactics in Scottsboro, defends NAACP leadership, and urges legal, labor, and democratic reform. | 4,112 words |
| 1931 (May) | Beside the Still Water | In The Crisis (1931) W.E.B. Du Bois condemns theatrical racism, lauds Richard B. Harrison and urges American theatre to honestly portray race. | 2,409 words |
| 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. | 3,523 words |
| 1931 (Apr) | Causes of Lynching | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1931) links lynching to ignorance, economic exploitation, political exclusion, religious intolerance, and sexual prejudice. | 335 words |
| 1930 (Aug) | A New Party | In 1930 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges a new labor party to expand public ownership, social welfare, restore Black voting rights and curb imperialism. | 321 words |
| 1930 (Aug) | Freedom of Speech | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1930) condemns silencing of Communists, arguing free speech is essential to democracy and resists racial oppression. | 234 words |
| 1930 (Aug) | Economic Disenfranchisement | In 1930 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues industrial disfranchisement bars Black labor and urges public ownership to secure racial democracy and fair work. | 757 words |
| 1930 (Aug) | India | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1930) condemns British imperialism, lauds India’s mass nonviolent struggle and warns its success could reshape global democracy. | 228 words |
| 1930 (May) | Our Program | In The Crisis (1930), W.E.B. Du Bois argues the NAACP fights race-based barriers, and that color discrimination blocks democracy, economic justice, and peace. | 525 words |
| 1930 (May) | The Capital N | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1930) argues that capitalizing Negro affirms racial self-respect and records a press shift tied to civil-rights advocacy. | 238 words |
| 1930 (Mar) | The Boycott | 1930: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges Black consumers to use boycotts as an economic weapon against racial discrimination and labor exclusion. | 712 words |
| 1930 (Mar) | Our Economic Peril | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1930) warns that racial exclusion and failing charity deepen Black economic peril, urging co‑ops and labor organizing. | 671 words |
| 1930 (Mar) | Patient Asses | In The Crisis (1930), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Jan Smuts’ racial caste in South Africa, urging Pan‑African solidarity against disfranchisement. | 1,251 words |
| 1930 (Feb) | Interracial Love in Texas | In a 1930 The Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois counters a Texas editorial, arguing interracial cooperation will drive social equality, race relations, and marriages. | 313 words |
| 1930 (Feb) | That Capital ‘N’ | In a 1930 The Crisis essay, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns a Raleigh paper’s refusal to capitalize Negro, arguing racial language sustains racial disrespect. | 118 words |
| 1930 (Feb) | Education | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1930) denounces racial inequity in schooling, details funding disparities, and urges federal aid requiring nondiscrimination. | 409 words |
| 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. | 435 words |
| 1930 (Jan) | About Wailing | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1930) defends continued ‘wailing’—documenting racial injustice, disfranchisement, poverty, and exclusion despite surface progress. | 720 words |
| 1930 (Jan) | Gambling | In The Crisis (1930), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Wall Street’s loaded-dice gambling, arguing it destroyed credit, labor and faith in American capitalism. | 1,119 words |
| 1930 (Jan) | About Marrying | In a 1930 The Crisis letter W.E.B. Du Bois urges marriage if both consent, warning interracial unions will face racial prejudice, social exclusion, job loss. | 1,278 words |
| 1930 (Jan) | Football | In 1930 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns a racially motivated benching in college football, blaming white prejudice and Black passivity. | 226 words |
| 1929 (Nov) | The Negro in Politics | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1929) argues Black political opportunism—esp. Harlem—rises as race shapes democracy, forcing pragmatic voting to protect rights. | 373 words |
| 1929 (Sep) | Pechstein and Pecksniff | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1929) condemns calls for segregated schools, arguing segregation undermines democracy, education and fosters racial caste. | 1,890 words |
| 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. | 3,883 words |
| 1929 (May) | The Chicago Debate | In 1929 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis rebukes racialist arguments, defending cultural equality and arguing social equality is civilized and inevitable. | 469 words |
| 1929 (May) | Missionaries | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1929) exposes racial discrimination in U.S. missionary societies, blocking Black missionaries to Africa. | 822 words |
| 1929 (May) | Herbert Hoover and the South | W.E.B. Du Bois, The Crisis (1929) argues Hoover’s push for a white-led Southern Republicanism threatens Black suffrage, democracy, and exposes white supremacy. | 548 words |
| 1929 (May) | Optimism | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1929) urges guarded optimism: race progress visible in legal defense, education, labor, and a budding Black arts movement. | 442 words |
| 1929 (Feb) | The National Interracial Conference | In 1929 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis calls for coordinated interracial study and annual conferences to address race, education, health, labor, and suffrage. | 1,688 words |
| 1929 (Feb) | DePriest | In a 1929 piece in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois defends Oscar DePriest’s election as a step for Black rights and democracy despite political compromises. | 725 words |
| 1929 (Feb) | Third Party | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1929) argues Southern disfranchisement rigs democracy, blocking Third Party politics and sustaining racialized plutocracy. | 969 words |
| 1929 (Feb) | A Pilgrimage To The Negro Schools | In 1929 W.E.B. Du Bois profiles Negro schools, lauds student vitality, critiques institutional shortcomings and Jim Crow in The Crisis. | 3,862 words |
| 1928 (Dec) | Segregation | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1928) chronicles federal workplace segregation’s rollback in Washington and calls for legal fights against racial discrimination. | 301 words |
| 1928 (Dec) | The Campaign of 1928 | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1928) condemns both parties’ betrayal of Black voters and urges a Third Party for racial justice, labor rights and democracy. | 752 words |
| 1928 (Dec) | The Election | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1928) condemns the white primary, praises Oscar DePriest, and urges democracy against corrupt political machines. | 128 words |
| 1928 (Nov) | The Dunbar National Bank | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1928), argues the Dunbar National Bank could democratize capital and empower Black leaders to advance racial democracy via credit. | 1,104 words |
| 1928 (Nov) | A Third Party | W.E.B. Du Bois, The Crisis (1928), argues the Solid South makes third-party success impossible, tying race, democracy, and labor to electoral power. | 732 words |
| 1928 (Nov) | On the Fence | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1928), shows Hoover and Smith align on oligarchy and color caste, urging Black voters to back Congress against the color bar. | 217 words |
| 1928 (Oct) | The Possibility of Democracy in America | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1928), argues that American democracy is endangered as Black disfranchisement and white oligarchy reshape voting. | 2,330 words |
| 1928 (Sep) | Howard | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1928), exposes bipartisan graft around Perry Howard, condemns black disenfranchisement and threats to democracy. | 234 words |
| 1928 (Sep) | Houston | W.E.B. Du Bois, writing for The Crisis (1928), shows the Democratic Party weaponizing race to suppress Black voters, exposing Jim-Crow politics and corruption. | 279 words |
| 1928 (Sep) | The Possibility of Democracy | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1928), argues democracy rests on broad citizen participation, condemning racial disfranchisement and illiteracy as threats. | 4,236 words |
| 1928 (Sep) | Booze | W.E.B. Du Bois exposes white hypocrisy in Republican politics, revealing how race and gender shape democracy in The Crisis, 1928, Booze. | 183 words |
| 1928 (Sep) | Lynching | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1928) exposes lynching as a political crime, showing a Florida photograph that reveals white supremacy and state violence. | 170 words |
| 1928 (Aug) | The Negro Voter | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1928) argues the disenfranchised Negro vote can shape democracy when educated, mobilized, and strategically organized. | 1,385 words |
| 1928 (Jul) | Visitors | W.E.B. Du Bois analyzes how modern visitors disrupt labor in The Crisis (1928), urging respectful scheduling to balance work and human connection in democracy. | 1,040 words |
| 1928 (Jun) | Sunny Florida | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1928) that Florida’s so-called boom rests on racial exploitation, police brutality, and corrupted democracy. | 532 words |
| 1928 (Jun) | Darrow | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1928), honors Clarence Darrow’s defense of labor and Black rights, and attacks ministers who favor creed over deeds. | 460 words |
| 1928 (Jun) | So the Girl Marries | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1928) frames his daughter’s wedding as a symbolic assertion of Black education, tradition, and racial progress. | 2,291 words |
| 1928 (Jun) | Two Novels | The Crisis (1928): W.E.B. Du Bois lauds Nella Larsen’s Quicksand as thoughtful race fiction and denounces Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem for prurience. | 662 words |
| 1928 (May) | The Negro Politician | W.E.B. Du Bois examines how Black voters confront graft and Jim Crow, arguing informed participation is essential to democracy in The Crisis (1928). | 534 words |
| 1928 (May) | Our Economic Future | Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1928) that Black labor power relies on cooperative manufacturing and consumer co-ops, challenging white-dominated markets. | 931 words |
| 1928 (May) | The Browsing Reader | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1928), critiques Ebony and Topaz as a sprawling Collectanea, arguing that focused booklets would better advance race and culture. | 136 words |
| 1928 (Apr) | The House of the Black Burghardts | W.E.B. Du Bois reflects in The Crisis (1928) on the House of the Black Burghardts, memory, and Black family roots in rural New England amid loss and longing. | 743 words |
| 1928 (Mar) | Augustus G. Dill | W.E.B. Du Bois shows in The Crisis (1928) that democracy hinges on Black voters, warning that anti-vote campaigns undermine race, rights, and progress. | 249 words |
| 1928 (Mar) | Black and White Workers | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1928) shows Black and white workers share a common struggle for democracy and labor rights, yet prejudice and bosses block solidarity. | 650 words |
| 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. | 484 words |
| 1928 (Mar) | Augustus G. Dill | W.E.B. Du Bois discusses Augustus G. Dill’s withdrawal as The Crisis’ business manager, highlighting labor, sacrifice, and leadership challenges in 1928. | 179 words |
| 1928 (Mar) | The Name Negro | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1928), argues that naming cannot erase racism; the real work is affirming Black humanity and democracy, not changing labels. | 1,004 words |
| 1928 (Feb) | The Flood, the Red Cross and the National Guard | W.E.B. Du Bois reveals in The Crisis 1928 how 1927 Mississippi flood relief, guided by Red Cross and National Guard, exploited Black labor and spurred migration. | 3,031 words |
| 1928 (Feb) | Marcus Garvey and the NAACP | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1928), clears up Garvey–NAACP myths, records their clashes, and urges a truthful pursuit of Black democracy. | 859 words |
| 1928 (Feb) | Social Equality | W.E.B. Du Bois, writing in The Crisis (1928), argues for social equality over color-line policy, urging open interracial contact and equal opportunity. | 939 words |
| 1928 (Jan) | Exclusion | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1928), reveals how racial exclusion in higher learning mocks democracy and Christianity, and exposes the harm of exclusion. | 219 words |
| 1928 (Jan) | The Flood, the Red Cross and the National Guard | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1928) exposes how Red Cross relief and the Mississippi National Guard coerced Black refugees into labor and racial oppression. | 4,924 words |
| 1927 (Dec) | The Hampton Strike | In The Crisis (1927) W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Hampton trustees and alumni silencing Black students, saying race and education demand support for student protest. | 603 words |
| 1927 (Dec) | Ten Years | In 1927 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis defends the Russian Revolution, denounces Czarist tyranny and Western misinformation, urging recognition of Soviet democracy. | 307 words |
| 1927 (Dec) | The Durham Conference | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) calls for a Durham conference to take stock of labor, education, voting rights and Black community life. | 316 words |
| 1927 (Dec) | Pullman Porters | In 1927 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois defends Pullman porters’ labor fight, exposes company bribery and racial barriers, urging sustained union struggle. | 227 words |
| 1927 (Nov) | Prejudice | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) argues that racial prejudice, rooted in slavery and segregation, produces reciprocal distrust and harm. | 667 words |
| 1927 (Nov) | Smith | In 1927 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues Governor Smith’s nomination would expose Southern racism and could shatter the Solid South, advancing democracy. | 155 words |
| 1927 (Nov) | Peonage | In 1927 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns a Hoover-appointed probe for likely whitewashing peonage in the Mississippi Valley and demands enforcement of rights | 209 words |
| 1927 (Nov) | Social Equals | In 1927 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois critiques racial etiquette: a Black doctor’s refused fee reveals persistent Southern prejudice and barriers to social equality. | 393 words |
| 1927 (Oct) | The Pan-African Congresses: The Story of a Growing Movement | In 1927 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis reports the Fourth Pan-African Congress, urging African self-rule, education, land rights, labor and racial democracy. | 2,049 words |
| 1927 (Oct) | Mencken | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) rebuts Mencken, arguing racial bias and white readership limit Black artists’ themes while the Renaissance endures. | 557 words |
| 1927 (Oct) | Wallace Battle, the Episcopal Church and Mississippi: A Story of Suppressed Truth | 1927: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis exposes Episcopal Church suppression of news about a Mississippi school’s murder, indicting racial injustice and betrayal of education | 2,680 words |
| 1927 (Oct) | Death Rates | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) argues we must compare Black mortality to its past, not whites, showing major health gains and reduced infant deaths. | 287 words |
| 1927 (Sep) | Browsing Reader - The American Race Problem | In 1927 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis critiques E.B. Reuter’s book as academic, prejudiced, and pessimistic about race, democracy, and Black education. | 355 words |
| 1927 (Aug) | Mob Tactics | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) exposes mob tactics: police and mobs criminalize Black Americans, undermine democracy, and urges armed self‑defense. | 356 words |
| 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. | 301 words |
| 1927 (Jul) | Flood | In 1927 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black refugees to flee Southern racial terror—documenting lynching, exploitative relief, and labor coercion. | 235 words |
| 1927 (Apr) | Farmers | In 1927 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues Black farmers face systemic exploitation in agriculture and should heed the Farm Bloc and McNary‑Haugen reforms. | 405 words |
| 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. | 255 words |
| 1927 (Mar) | Aiken | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) condemns Aiken’s lynchocracy: Klan rule, racial violence, and democratic failure with officials complicit. | 280 words |
| 1927 (Mar) | Liberia | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) urges sympathy for Liberia, critiques missionary overreach and paternalism, defends Firestone lease, warns corporate power. | 505 words |
| 1927 (Feb) | Chicago | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) condemns Chicago Democrats’ anti-Black campaign, showing race-driven tactics that coerced Black votes and weakened democracy. | 409 words |
| 1927 (Feb) | “Harmless Flourish” | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) condemns Georgia disfranchisement and unequal voting power as drivers of graft, corruption, and broken democracy. | 253 words |
| 1927 (Feb) | Science | In 1927 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois exposes scientific racism in Hirsh’s tests, showing biased sampling and unequal education drive alleged race differences. | 145 words |
| 1927 (Feb) | War | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) condemns imperialist profiteering and urges pacifists to resist war with Mexico to defend human life. | 204 words |
| 1927 (Feb) | Lynching | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) denounces 1926’s surge in lynching, arguing failed local justice demands federal action to protect Black life and democracy. | 312 words |
| 1927 (Feb) | Judging Russia | In 1927 W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis that Soviet Russia elevates labor and education—threatening capitalist power and redefining democracy. | 1,275 words |
| 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. | 436 words |
| 1927 (Jan) | Hayes | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) lauds Roland Hayes’s Carnegie Hall triumph as a powerful moment for Black cultural representation and racial pride. | 129 words |
| 1927 (Jan) | Our Methods | In The Crisis (1927) W.E.B. Du Bois defends NAACP methods, arguing organized protest and legal action advance racial justice, democracy, and labor rights. | 751 words |
| 1927 (Jan) | League of Nations | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) critiques the League of Nations for excluding Black labor and colonial voices, urging racial and labor representation. | 241 words |
| 1927 (Jan) | Intermarriage | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1927) counters claims the NAACP endorses interracial marriage, arguing bans breed illegitimacy and strip Black women’s protection. | 153 words |
| 1926 (Jun) | Italy and Abyssinia | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1926) argues Italy seeks Abyssinia to extend empire, exposing imperial theft, racial hypocrisy, and threats to democracy. | 490 words |
| 1926 (Jun) | Eugene Debs | In 1926 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis honors Eugene Debs, arguing his labor vision linked race and class—urging interracial labor solidarity for emancipation. | 219 words |
| 1926 (Jun) | Books | In this 1926 The Crisis review W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Carl Van Vechten’s Nigger Heaven as a false, demeaning portrait of Harlem and Black life. | 996 words |
| 1926 (Jun) | Travel | Traveling in 1926, W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis reports firsthand Russian and European journeys, arguing race and democracy are global issues. | 785 words |
| 1926 (Jun) | The Shambles of South Carolina | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1926) exposes lynching, Klan violence and legal failure in South Carolina, arguing racial terror corrodes democracy. | 3,095 words |
| 1926 (May) | Disenfranchisement | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1926) that Southern disenfranchisement of Black voters undermines democracy and fuels white supremacy. | 512 words |
| 1926 (May) | Lynching | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1926) that lynching endures, urges Congress to pass the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, and reveals racial injustice. | 309 words |
| 1926 (May) | Crime | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1926) that racist myths of Black criminality are false; crime stems from poverty, ignorance, and state oppression, not race. | 456 words |
| 1926 (May) | Russia, 1926 | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1926) documents Soviet schools, labor, and mass democracy from Moscow, arguing Russia’s revolution reshapes his politics. | 529 words |
| 1926 (Apr) | Criteria of Negro Art | W.E.B. Du Bois, The Crisis, 1926: He argues Black art must fuse Truth, Beauty, and Justice as a force for democracy and freedom from white gatekeepers. | 4,100 words |
| 1926 (Apr) | Again, Pullman Porters | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1926) condemns Pullman’s suppression of Black porters’ labor rights and urges resistance to servile, racialized work. | 434 words |
| 1926 (Mar) | Our Book Shelf | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1926) praises Porgy’s sympathy but faults its narrow racial portrayal, erasing Charleston’s working and middle-class life. | 322 words |
| 1926 (Mar) | Correspondence | In 1926 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis defends individuals’ right to interracial marriage while analyzing race, assimilation, and group self-respect. | 392 words |
| 1926 (Feb) | The Newer South | In The Crisis (1926), W.E.B. Du Bois critiques the New South’s Jim Crow, lynching, and educational neglect while urging white Southerners to join racial justice. | 967 words |
| 1926 (Jan) | ‘Krigwa Players Little Negro Theatre’ | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1926), argues for a new Negro theatre—by us, for us, near us—rooted in Harlem and advancing race democracy through art. | 1,230 words |
| 1926 (Jan) | Murder | W.E.B. Du Bois analyzes rising U.S. murder and lynching in The Crisis (1926), showing how racialized violence undermines democracy and human life. | 212 words |
| 1926 (Jan) | The Sweet Trial | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1926) documents the Sweet trial, arguing racial mob violence and police bias forced Black homeowners to defend property and rights | 3,285 words |
| 1926 (Jan) | The First Battle of Detroit | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1926) condemns white churches’ inaction, credits NAACP and Darrow for resisting racial injustice in Detroit’s Sweet trial. | 346 words |
| 1926 (Jan) | Pullman Porters | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1926) defends Black Pullman porters’ labor rights, condemns company intimidation, press silence, and government corruption. | 333 words |
| 1926 (Jan) | Our Book Shelf | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1926) lauds Alain Locke’s The New Negro as a racial renaissance—propaganda for life and liberty, warning art must serve struggle. | 823 words |
| 1925 (Jul) | Ferdinand Q. Morton | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1925) profiles Ferdinand Q. Morton, a Tammany leader using party politics to secure Black representation and jobs. | 794 words |
| 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. | 384 words |
| 1925 (Jun) | The Black Man and Labor | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1925) urges Black labor solidarity, defends Pullman porters’ unionizing, and calls for openness to Soviet industrial reforms. | 343 words |
| 1925 (Jun) | Disenfranchisement | In a 1925 essay for The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois documents how literacy tests, poll taxes and the White Primary disenfranchise Black voters and hollow democracy. | 665 words |
| 1925 (May) | Our Book Shelf | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1925) reviews Johnson’s Negro Spirituals and Woofter’s racial study, praising musical heritage and calling for racial fairness. | 1,033 words |
| 1925 (May) | The Challenge of Detroit | In The Crisis (1925), W.E.B. Du Bois decries Detroit’s racial housing violence, exposing how migration, prejudice, and real estate power threaten democracy. | 1,525 words |
| 1925 (May) | The New Crisis | In 1925 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis calls for renewed focus on race, labor, political independence, education, art and international peace. | 1,246 words |
| 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. | 866 words |
| 1924 (Dec) | Fifteen Years | In 1924 W.E.B. Du Bois urges readers to fund The Crisis, arguing that sustaining the magazine is vital to race, truth, democracy, and reform. | 539 words |
| 1924 (Dec) | West Indian Immigration | In The Crisis (1924), W.E.B. Du Bois critiques an immigration bill that bars West Indian migrants, arguing U.S. democracy and racial balance suffer. | 203 words |
| 1924 (Dec) | The Election | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1924) critiques the election’s effects on Black democracy, cataloging gains in representation and losses from Klan resurgence. | 479 words |
| 1924 (Dec) | The Temptation in the Wilderness | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1924) frames a Black man’s wilderness temptations as a moral struggle over bread, labor, power, race and spiritual dignity. | 761 words |
| 1924 (May) | Fall Books | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1924) reviews fall books, indicting the Southern oligarchy, lynching, and disfranchisement while championing race, democracy, and education | 1,386 words |
| 1924 (May) | How Shall We Vote | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1924) urges voting La Follette–Wheeler, ties race and economic injustice to politics, condemns Coolidge and the Klan. | 142 words |
| 1924 (May) | A Lunatic or a Traitor | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1924) condemns Marcus Garvey as a dangerous traitor or lunatic who undermines race progress and Black democracy. | 1,115 words |
| 1924 (Apr) | Little Portraits of Africa | In 1924 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois celebrates Africa’s landscape, people, and spiritual culture and critiques the heavy cost of colonial civilizing labor. | 1,157 words |
| 1924 (Apr) | Inter-Marriage | In 1924 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis denounces KKK-backed anti-miscegenation bills, arguing race laws degrade women, marriage, and democracy. | 274 words |
| 1924 (Mar) | Sketches from Abroad | In 1924 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis recounts travel sketches across Europe toward Africa, critiquing imperialism, whiteness, and noting Pan-African ties. | 1,924 words |
| 1924 (Mar) | The N.A.A.C.P. and Parties | In a 1924 essay for The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns party patronage, urges Black voters to defend democracy, and promotes nonpartisan debate on race. | 621 words |
| 1924 (Feb) | Kenya | In The Crisis (1924), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns British colonial race policy in Kenya—land dispossession, exclusion of blacks and Indians, threat to democracy. | 211 words |
| 1924 (Feb) | The Younger Literary Movement | In 1924 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois champions a younger Black literary movement—praising race-minded novels and modernist works that renew American literature. | 1,652 words |
| 1924 (Feb) | To the American Federation of Labor | In 1924’s The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois warns unions to end racial exclusion and create an Interracial Labor Commission to protect labor rights. | 459 words |
| 1924 (Feb) | La Follette | 1924: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns La Follette’s program for ignoring race and the Ku Klux Klan, risking continued injustice for Black Americans. | 361 words |
| 1924 (Jan) | The Black Man and the Wounded World | W.E.B. Du Bois, The Crisis (1924), argues income-seeking elites, backed by propaganda and law, sustain racial imperialism and deny labor, democracy, education. | 3,195 words |
| 1924 (Jan) | Helping Africa | In 1924 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois critiques paternalism toward Africa, arguing Africans claim land, self-determination, and resist colonial control. | 257 words |
| 1924 (Jan) | Unity | In The Crisis (1924) W.E.B. Du Bois argues diversity - not enforced unity - is vital to Negro progress and defends the NAACP’s fight for race and democracy. | 590 words |
| 1924 (Jan) | Vote | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1924) urges Black voters to target traitorous Congress and state candidates, using strategic voting to defend democracy. | 157 words |
| 1923 (Jun) | A University Course in Lynching | In 1923 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns university ‘courses’ that normalize lynching, exposing racial injustice and corruption of American education. | 311 words |
| 1923 (Jun) | On Being Crazy | In 1923 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis exposes everyday racial exclusion as irrational cruelty, using vignettes to critique white prejudice. | 554 words |
| 1923 (Mar) | Florida | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1923) advises Black migrants against emigrating to Liberia without capital, skills, and health, stressing labor realities. | 319 words |
| 1923 (Feb) | The Technique of Race Prejudice | In 1923 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois exposes how elite white leaders use subtle techniques of race prejudice to bar Black talent from education and the arts. | 1,322 words |
| 1923 (Feb) | The Tragedy of ‘Jim Crow’ | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1923) condemns rising Northern ‘Jim Crow’ school segregation, defends Black teachers, and urges democratic, educational reform. | 2,131 words |
| 1923 (Jan) | Political Straws | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1923) analyzes Black voting strategy—rejecting enemies, backing allies, and demanding racial justice in democracy. | 1,212 words |
| 1923 (Jan) | The Tuskegee Hospital | W.E.B. Du Bois (1923, The Crisis) condemns Tuskegee Hospital’s racial segregation and political control, arguing it endangers Black veterans’ health and dignity. | 950 words |
| 1923 (Jan) | Intentions | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1923) condemns partisan betrayal over the Dyer anti‑lynching bill and urges Black political power, sustained fight for democracy. | 2,506 words |
| 1922 (Sep) | Flipper | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1922) documents racial injustice in Lt. H.O. Flipper’s 1882 dismissal and calls for congressional redress and rank restoration. | 153 words |
| 1922 (Sep) | We Shuffle Along | W.E.B. Du Bois (The Crisis, 1922) criticizes theatrical monopoly and white ignorance that bar Black performers, showing prejudice bred by censorship. | 466 words |
| 1922 (Jun) | White Charity | In 1922 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis critiques white charity for Black communities, urging reparative accountability for race, labor and true freedom. | 349 words |
| 1922 (May) | Social Equality | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis 1922 argues for social equality for Black Americans, condemning racial contempt and urging refusal to return hatred. | 234 words |
| 1922 (May) | Art for Nothing | In The Crisis (1922), W.E.B. Du Bois warns that underpaying Black artists starves their work and urges fair pay as a racial and labor justice issue. | 404 words |
| 1922 (May) | Slavery | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1922) exposes continuing slavery and racial injustice in the Southern courts, profiteering elites, and church complicity. | 311 words |
| 1922 (May) | Publicity | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1922) insists publicity, public income, property, and occupation records must reform labor, economics, and democracy. | 527 words |
| 1922 (May) | Anti-Lynching Legislation | In 1922 in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois defends the NAACP’s focused anti-lynching campaign, warning that splitting efforts harms race justice and freedom. | 786 words |
| 1922 (May) | Slavery | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1922), condemns ongoing slavery and racial labor exploitation in the South and demands justice for Black Americans. | 311 words |
| 1922 (May) | The President | In 1922’s The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois denounces Republican race patronage and urges anti-lynching, labor and education reforms to defend democracy. | 449 words |
| 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. | 375 words |
| 1922 (May) | The Drive | In a 1922 The Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black Americans to back the NAACP, fight lynching and Jim Crow at home, and defend democracy. | 460 words |
| 1922 (May) | 7000 | In 1922 W.E.B. Du Bois documents a 7,000-mile lecture tour in The Crisis, exposing Jim Crow, lynching, and Black life while urging racial democracy. | 246 words |
| 1922 (May) | K.K.K. | In 1922, W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns the KKK as cowardly, racist, and lawless, urging the white South to defend democracy and Black rights. | 419 words |
| 1922 (May) | Truth and Beauty | In 1922 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges cultivating Black art and beauty alongside truth, arguing culture and aesthetics vital to racial progress. | 593 words |
| 1922 (Apr) | The Negro and Labor | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1922) exposes how race and labor intersect: white workers, employers, and imperialism pit Black labor against democracy and rights. | 948 words |
| 1922 (Feb) | Advertising | 1922: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues modern advertising can mobilize indifferent white readers to expose lynching, advancing racial justice and democracy. | 332 words |
| 1922 (Jan) | Mr. Howard | In The Crisis (1922), W.E.B. Du Bois urges Perry Howard and Black officials to reject token roles, defend anti-lynching reform, and uphold race dignity. | 389 words |
| 1922 (Jan) | N.A.A.C.P. and Xmas | In The Crisis (1922), W.E.B. Du Bois urges donations to the NAACP, funding race justice, anti-lynching efforts, Klan exposure and legal aid. | 450 words |
| 1922 (Jan) | Coöperation | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1922) defends cooperative labor among Black Americans, warns of frauds, and showcases successful racial-economic organizing. | 209 words |
| 1922 (Jan) | Negro Art | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1922) argues Black art asserts the Negro race’s role as interpreter of beauty, demanding recognition and overturning racial myths. | 160 words |
| 1922 (Jan) | The Harding Political Plan | 1922 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns Harding’s plan to impose white rule and split Black votes, urging voters to protect race, democracy and the Dyer bill. | 668 words |
| 1922 (Jan) | The World and Us | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1922) argues war-driven unemployment, imperialism, and racist labor exclusion undermine democracy and global disarmament. | 1,083 words |
| 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. | 2,135 words |
| 1921 (Dec) | The Sermon in the Cradle | In a 1921 Crisis essay, W.E.B. Du Bois reimagines Christ born in Benin, affirming Black dignity, faith, and hope as resistance to racial oppression. | 505 words |
| 1921 (Dec) | Chamounix | In 1921 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis meditates on Chamounix and Mont Blanc, making mountain and mist into spiritual forces that renew human wonder. | 761 words |
| 1921 (Nov) | Ku Klux Klan | In The Crisis (1921) W.E.B. Du Bois exposes the Ku Klux Klan as a racist, profit-seeking racket whose exposure weakens its hold on democracy. | 147 words |
| 1921 (Nov) | Manifesto to the League of Nations | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis 1921 asks the League of Nations to affirm racial equality, study Negro labor, and appoint Black members to Mandates Commission. | 627 words |
| 1921 (Nov) | America’s Making | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) reports on America’s Making, a pageant documenting racial and immigrant contributions to education, labor, and music. | 291 words |
| 1921 (Nov) | Robert T. Kerlin | In 1921 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois lauds Robert Kerlin’s courage defending Elaine victims, denouncing Southern race injustice and VMI’s academic dismissal. | 481 words |
| 1921 (Nov) | To The World | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) demands racial equality, self-government, education and labor rights, condemning colonialism and economic injustice. | 2,350 words |
| 1921 (Oct) | Thomas Jesse Jones | W.E.B. Du Bois (The Crisis, 1921) criticizes T. J. Jones for imposing white control over Black education, missions and leadership, urging Black representation. | 3,505 words |
| 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. | 1,237 words |
| 1921 (Jun) | Crime | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) rejects the myth of Negro crime, cites poverty, ignorance, unjust courts, and urges reforms in labor, schools, justice. | 266 words |
| 1921 (Jun) | The Second Pan-African Congress | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) urges Pan-African unity and fundraising for the Second Pan-African Congress, mobilizing Black organizations worldwide. | 440 words |
| 1921 (Jun) | Negro Art | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) argues Black art must portray honest human truth about race and life—not mere propaganda or myth. | 639 words |
| 1921 (Apr) | A Letter | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) condemns the YWCA’s dismissal of Mrs. Talbert, exposing racial insult, institutional injustice, and calling for apology. | 592 words |
| 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. | 773 words |
| 1921 (Apr) | The Second Pan-African Congress | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) announces the Second Pan-African Congress in Paris, arguing logistics and anti-colonial solidarity unite Black communities. | 250 words |
| 1921 (Apr) | Tulsa | In The Crisis (1921), W.E.B. Du Bois demands remembrance of Tulsa, praises Black self-defense and cooperative rebuilding, and urges support for justice. | 270 words |
| 1921 (Apr) | Socialism and the Negro | In The Crisis (1921), W.E.B. Du Bois critiques socialism’s promise for Black labor, urging cautious, evolutionary reform amid race and imperialism. | 1,305 words |
| 1921 (Apr) | The Single Tax | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) argues land monopoly fuels economic injustice and urges Henry George’s single tax to defend labor and democracy. | 245 words |
| 1921 (Apr) | Haiti | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) urges Americans to demand U.S. withdrawal from Haiti, condemning imperialism and defending Black democracy. | 141 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | Pan-Africa | In 1921 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis traces the rise of Pan-African public opinion and urges unity for political rights, land, education and labor reform. | 784 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | A Quarter Million | In 1921 W.E.B. Du Bois urges readers in The Crisis to join the NAACP’s 250,000-member drive to defend Black freedom, democracy, and civil rights. | 237 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | The Woman Voter | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) celebrates Black women’s voting as a democratic advance and reproves leaders like James B. Dudley who urged abstention. | 244 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | Bleeding Ireland | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) argues English repression of Ireland mirrors U.S. racial violence, showing oppressed peoples used to police labor and race. | 335 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | A Correction | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) corrects earlier coverage of Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line, clarifying ship materials and defending Black enterprise. | 102 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | Homicides | In 1921 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois denounces racist propaganda that twists homicide statistics to blame Black people while Black lives are murdered. | 458 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | Boddy | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) indicts society for producing a young Black murderer—race, policing, war training and failed education at fault. | 475 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | Gandhi and India | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) profiles Gandhi as a moral leader whose nonviolent non-cooperation advances India’s anti-colonial struggle for Swaraj. | 3,326 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | Of Boards | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) argues that boards shape democratic action, praising NAACP leaders while exposing race, gender, and leadership tensions. | 996 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | Investments | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) warns Black investors to safeguard race capital—demand honesty, responsibility, feasibility and capable leadership. | 706 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | The Spread of Socialism | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) shows socialism’s global rise and urges democratic control of industry and labor through public stewardship. | 283 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | Of Cold Feet | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) condemns patriotic bluster and cowardly refusal to protest a libelous film, a moral critique of civic duty and race. | 110 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | About Pugilists | In 1921 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis exposes racial hypocrisy in boxing—condemning outrage at Jack Johnson while lynching goes unprotested. | 323 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | Railroad Unions | In 1921 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns railroad unions for racist, exclusionary labor monopolies that harm workers and democracy. | 128 words |
| 1921 (Mar) | Girls | In 1921 for The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois celebrates joyful Black girls’ education, critiquing stifling Southern school discipline and affirming hope. | 183 words |
| 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. | 999 words |
| 1921 (Feb) | Phonograph Records | In 1921’s The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns phonograph firms’ racial exclusion of Black musicians and urges a Black-owned recording industry. | 396 words |
| 1921 (Feb) | The Lynching Bill | In The Crisis (1921), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns lynching as wholesale murder, urging federal action to defend law, democracy, and Black lives. | 344 words |
| 1921 (Feb) | Africa for the Africans | W.E.B. Du Bois (1921, The Crisis) argues Africa must be governed for Africans, critiques colonial labor limits and urges self-rule over racial paternalism. | 408 words |
| 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. | 306 words |
| 1921 (Feb) | Charles Young | In The Crisis (1921) W.E.B. Du Bois honors soldier Charles Young, chronicling racist Army injustice that sacrificed his career and life for duty and race. | 531 words |
| 1921 (Feb) | Vicious Provisions of a Great Bill | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) lambasts a federal education bill that would cement racial schooling inequity and encourage lynching and peonage. | 501 words |
| 1921 (Feb) | The Link Between | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) praises Natalie Curtis Burlin’s music work as bridging race divides, advancing cultural understanding and democracy. | 734 words |
| 1921 (Feb) | Politics and Power | 1921: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis exposes how disfranchisement and racist tax and school policies in Mississippi deny Black education, democracy, and services. | 633 words |
| 1921 (Feb) | The Class Struggle | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) rejects revolution; argues Black race needs economic democracy—banks, capital and education to secure labor rights. | 909 words |
| 1921 (Feb) | Lynchings and Mobs | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) exposes how southern police, courts and press enforce racial terror—lynching, mob rule, and denial of justice. | 100 words |
| 1921 (Feb) | Hopkinsville, Chicago and Idlewild | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) urges the NAACP to agitate, educate and build democratic control of capital to secure Black economic democracy. | 910 words |
| 1921 (Feb) | Of Problems | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) criticizes racial double standards that deny Black social equality, voting rights and self‑defense. | 120 words |
| 1921 (Feb) | Lynchings and Mobs | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) warns that segregating high schools undermines democracy, fosters racial hatred, and weakens education. | 297 words |
| 1921 (Jan) | Pan-Africa | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) calls a Pan‑African Congress in Paris to rally Black governments and activists for racial solidarity, democracy, and self‑rule. | 199 words |
| 1921 (Jan) | Votes for Negroes | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) denounces Bourbon South racism and urges Black enfranchisement as the cornerstone of democracy against lynching. | 584 words |
| 1921 (Jan) | Chicago | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) warns that Illinois’ Inter-Racial Commission masks a segregation agenda, using questionnaires to trap Black leaders. | 260 words |
| 1921 (Jan) | Thrift | 1921: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges Black thrift and democratic control of capital—saving, investment, and education as keys to racial and economic freedom | 621 words |
| 1921 (Jan) | Mount Hermon | In 1921 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns racial inequality in education, exposing philanthropy’s excuses and stark funding gaps for Black schools. | 457 words |
| 1921 (Jan) | Marcus Garvey | In 1921 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis critiques Marcus Garvey’s racial commerce schemes, warning that poor business, secrecy, and hubris endanger Black progress. | 2,857 words |
| 1921 (Jan) | Political Rebirth and the Office Seeker | In The Crisis (1921), W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black voters to convert growing political power into deeds: federal anti-lynching, end Jim Crow, universal education. | 435 words |
| 1921 (Jan) | Election Day in Florida | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) documents Ku Klux violence and voter suppression in Florida, exposing threats to Black democracy. | 2,658 words |
| 1921 (Jan) | Tulsa Riots | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) documents the Tulsa race riot: white mob violence, mass displacement, and peonage driving terror. | 923 words |
| 1921 (Jan) | Libelous Film | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1921) attacks The Birth of a Nation as racist libel and records arrests of NAACP protesters defending democracy. | 173 words |
| 1921 (Jan) | The Negro and Radical Thought | 1921: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges Negro emancipation and labor solidarity at home, warning against uncritical embrace of Russian socialism. | 1,443 words |
| 1921 (Jan) | Amity | In 1921 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues interracial amity and frank dialogue will heal race injustice and strengthen American democracy. | 409 words |
| 1920 (Dec) | Marcus Garvey | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) critiques Marcus Garvey’s Black nationalist drive - praising his leadership and race pride while faulting its business sense. | 1,349 words |
| 1920 (Dec) | The Unreal Campaign | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns an unreal presidential campaign that weaponized race, undermined democracy and failed labor and third parties. | 829 words |
| 1920 (Dec) | McSwiney | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) praises Irish hunger-striker Terence MacSwiney, arguing patient martyrdom exposes injustice and defends democracy. | 117 words |
| 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. | 896 words |
| 1920 (Dec) | And Now Liberia | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois denounces Wilson Plan as financial imperialism, rigid US terms and white control threaten Liberian sovereignty and democracy. | 193 words |
| 1920 (Dec) | Martyrs | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) condemns the state executions and life sentences after the Houston Riot, demanding racial justice and pardons. | 175 words |
| 1920 (Nov) | Pity the Poor Author | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) rebukes those who expect free books, defending authors’ labor, costs, and the dignity of literary work. | 387 words |
| 1920 (Nov) | Progress | In The Crisis (1920) W.E.B. Du Bois says Black selfhood, education, labor organizing and business enterprise fueled rapid racial progress since emancipation. | 331 words |
| 1920 (Nov) | The Social Equality of Whites and Blacks | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) defends social equality as a democratic right for all races while advising against interracial marriage in America today. | 1,191 words |
| 1920 (Nov) | Suffrage | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) argues southern suffrage laws mask race-based disenfranchisement, subverting democracy to preserve white supremacy. | 583 words |
| 1920 (Nov) | Reason in School and Business | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) urges reason in race, education, and business—favoring merit over color while defending Black enterprise and fairness. | 645 words |
| 1920 (Oct) | Steal | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) condemns white churches’ hypocrisy as they abandon labor and racial justice, siding with steel interests against unions. | 334 words |
| 1920 (Oct) | Triumph | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois celebrates woman suffrage as a democratic triumph and links opposition to lynching, child labor, and racial injustice. | 252 words |
| 1920 (Sep) | The History of Haiti | In The Crisis (1920), W.E.B. Du Bois traces Haiti’s revolutionary struggle, showing how race, Black labor, and foreign capital shaped its path to democracy. | 1,182 words |
| 1920 (Aug) | The Task | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) says Shillady’s resignation exposes entrenched white opposition and limits NAACP methods, urging national action on race. | 552 words |
| 1920 (Jul) | A Question | 1920: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns silence about racial exclusion at conferences, urging public exposure of segregation and moral accountability. | 339 words |
| 1920 (Jul) | Soldiers | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) condemns Army racial exclusion, urging organized Black units and Negro officers to secure military equality. | 240 words |
| 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. | 554 words |
| 1920 (Jul) | Race Intelligence | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois dismantles racist intelligence tests, exposing flawed science that limits Black education and labor prospects. | 590 words |
| 1920 (Jul) | Latin | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) defends Latin in Black education, warning that dropping classics isolates schools and denies college access. | 266 words |
| 1920 (Jun) | Presidential Candidates | 1920: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis catalogs 17 presidential candidates’ stances on lynching, Jim Crow, schools and voting—exposing political silence. | 164 words |
| 1920 (Jun) | Mississippi | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) documents how Mississippi laws and mobs criminalize race equality, censor Black speech, and enforce vigilante terror. | 1,056 words |
| 1920 (May) | Extradition Cases | In The Crisis (1920), W.E.B. Du Bois shows how northern refusals to extradite Black suspects—amid lynching threats—expose racial injustice in law. | 183 words |
| 1920 (May) | Get Ready | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) calls on Black Americans to prepare, defend voting rights, and legally resist Southern efforts to disfranchise Black women. | 332 words |
| 1920 (May) | White Co-Workers | In 1920 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis defends interracial NAACP leadership, arguing cooperation with whites advances racial justice and American democracy. | 1,235 words |
| 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. | 178 words |
| 1920 (Apr) | Persecution | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns the persecution of educator Roscoe C. Bruce, urging Black Washington to end infighting that harms education. | 637 words |
| 1920 (Apr) | In Black | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) urges Black communities to reject racist caricature, reclaim racial pride, and see beauty in black. | 539 words |
| 1920 (Apr) | Remember | In The Crisis (1920), W.E.B. Du Bois warns that the South’s fragile power relies on racial disfranchisement and urges federal defense of democracy. | 180 words |
| 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. | 285 words |
| 1920 (Apr) | Negro Writers | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) calls for promoting Negro writers, arguing a literary renaissance is vital to race, education, and economic justice. | 323 words |
| 1920 (Apr) | Of Giving Work | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois exposes southern paternalism: Black labor sustains white wealth and demands fair wages and political rights. | 345 words |
| 1920 (Apr) | Every Four Years | In The Crisis (1920), W.E.B. Du Bois denounces the Republican Party for buying Southern delegates, betraying Black leaders and enabling disfranchisement. | 338 words |
| 1920 (Apr) | Hyde Park | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) condemns white real-estate schemes enforcing racial segregation in Hyde Park and urges Black property ownership. | 182 words |
| 1920 (Apr) | Haiti | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns the U.S. occupation of Haiti as illegal racist repression that kills and deposes officials, denying Haitian democracy. | 116 words |
| 1920 (Mar) | Murder Will Out | In 1920 in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois exposes how Southern race and class power undermine labor and democracy, exploiting both Black and white workers. | 248 words |
| 1920 (Mar) | The Rise of the West Indian | 1920: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis shows how rising West Indian migration creates new Black political consciousness, labor demands, and race solidarity. | 492 words |
| 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. | 293 words |
| 1920 (Mar) | How Shall We Vote | In The Crisis 1920, W.E.B. Du Bois warns GOP and Democrats uphold Jim Crow; urges Black voters to elect congressional allies to defend race and democracy. | 395 words |
| 1920 (Mar) | A Soldier | 1920: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis exposes racial injustice in Edgar Caldwell’s death sentence and urges Black donors to fund his legal defense. | 122 words |
| 1920 (Mar) | Dives, Mob, and Scab | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) indicts industrialists and racist labor practices for driving Black workers to scab, lynching, and class conflict. | 388 words |
| 1920 (Mar) | Just Like—Folks | Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) exposes postwar hypocrisy: U.S. betrayal of democracy, repression of labor and Black veterans, and racial double standards. | 270 words |
| 1920 (Mar) | Unrest | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) invokes divine intervention in a poem of social unrest, pleading for clarity amid racial and political turmoil. | 88 words |
| 1920 (Mar) | Woman Suffrage | In The Crisis (1920), W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black women to organize, study laws, register, and prepare for suffrage to defend democracy and race rights. | 536 words |
| 1920 (Mar) | England, Again | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) condemns British imperialism and land theft, exposing racial hypocrisy and the betrayal of democratic ideals. | 1,022 words |
| 1920 (Mar) | Again, Social Equality | In the 1920 issue of The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois satirically exposes white hypocrisy that blocks Black social equality, voting rights, and true civic inclusion. | 570 words |
| 1920 (Mar) | Information Wanted | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) demands to know if Black leaders aided Arkansas’ racial injustice—probing race, justice, and leadership betrayal. | 231 words |
| 1920 (Feb) | Pettiness | In a 1920 The Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns petty social squabbles among Black college women in Harlem and warns they undermine community and progress. | 169 words |
| 1920 (Feb) | Clothes | In a 1920 Crisis essay, W.E.B. Du Bois flips racist assumptions, arguing whites’ fears about Black laundry reveal public-health harms and racial hypocrisy. | 138 words |
| 1920 (Feb) | Leadership | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) condemns imperialist leadership - England and Wilson - for betraying democracy, racial justice, and labor in the League. | 294 words |
| 1920 (Feb) | A Matter of Manners | In a 1920 essay in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues that perceptions of Black manners provoke racial violence and lynching, exposing systemic injustice. | 584 words |
| 1920 (Feb) | The Unfortunate South | In 1920 W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis, excoriates the white South’s racial blindness—blaming Black people for social ills and stifling culture. | 196 words |
| 1920 (Feb) | Coöperation | In The Crisis (1920), W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black cooperative stores—profit-sharing by purchase—to protect Black labor and resist corporate trusts. | 368 words |
| 1920 (Feb) | Danger | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) warns that a bill making ‘racial’ appeals unmailable would silence Black voices and endanger democracy. | 251 words |
| 1920 (Feb) | Crime | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues racial injustice, poverty, and lack of education foster Black crime—and condemns collective punishment. | 699 words |
| 1920 (Feb) | The House of Jacob | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) denounces Southern racial lawlessness—lynching, disfranchisement, failing schools and child labor that betray democracy. | 256 words |
| 1920 (Feb) | Arkansas | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) exposes Arkansas insurance bias and white surveillance that punish Black wealth, voting and anti-lynching activism. | 270 words |
| 1920 (Jan) | The Macon Telegraph | In 1920 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis rebukes the Macon Telegraph, arguing racial injustice—lynching, disfranchisement, unequal education—drives Southern unrest. | 1,210 words |
| 1920 (Jan) | England | In The Crisis (1920), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns English imperialism, exposing racial injustice and economic plunder and urging independence and self-rule. | 759 words |
| 1920 (Jan) | Brothers, Come North | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) urges Black migration North for labor, education, and democracy, condemning Southern lynching and Jim Crow. | 703 words |
| 1920 (Jan) | Sex Equality | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois denounces AG Palmer for calling interracial marriage “sex equality,” exposes hypocrisy and defends Black rights to marry. | 326 words |
| 1920 (Jan) | “Our” South | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1920) exposes the white South’s property myth that denies Black labor rights, education, and a democratic voice. | 231 words |
| 1920 (Jan) | Race Pride | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois challenges race pride, arguing whites must choose segregation or true democracy and justice for all races. | 407 words |
| 1920 (Jan) | American Legion, Again | In 1920 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black veterans to join the American Legion, fight racial exclusion, and defend democracy. | 233 words |
| 1919 (Jun) | An Essay Toward a History of the Black Man in the Great War | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) chronicles Black soldiers’ WWI service—labor, leadership struggles, and racial injustice challenging American democracy. | 15,927 words |
| 1919 (Jun) | Egypt and India | In a 1919 article in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black America’s solidarity with colonized India and Egypt, condemning oppression and pleading for justice. | 270 words |
| 1919 (Jun) | Steve | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) mourns the dog Steve as an allegory for Russia’s revolution—loyalty, loss, and sacrificial hope. | 715 words |
| 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. | 526 words |
| 1919 (Jun) | The Flight into Egypt | In 1919 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois reimagines the Holy Family as Black refugees, exposing racial oppression and the quest for freedom. | 339 words |
| 1919 (Jun) | Peace | In a 1919 essay in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois calls for a postwar reckoning—after WWI’s blood and terror, nations must choose peace, healing, and democracy. | 185 words |
| 1919 (Jun) | Radicals | In 1919 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Southern oligarchy’s campaign to silence Black critics, warning it threatens race equality and free speech. | 331 words |
| 1919 (Jun) | The Real Causes of Two Race Riots | In a 1919 Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois argues race riots stem from Southern peonage, labor exploitation, and white mob violence undermining democracy. | 4,351 words |
| 1919 (Jun) | The Gospel According to Mary Brown | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) retells Mary Brown’s parable to condemn racial violence and lynching, tying religious faith to labor and injustice. | 1,154 words |
| 1919 (Jun) | The Negro Soldier | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) rebutts attacks on Black soldiers, exposing wartime racism and documenting their bravery and military competence. | 576 words |
| 1919 (Jun) | Votes | In 1919 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues Black suffrage is the central racial struggle: Northern voters can restore democracy, end Southern disfranchisement. | 423 words |
| 1919 (May) | My Mission | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) recounts organizing a Pan‑African Congress in Paris to press race, rights and League of Nations action for Black democracy. | 1,252 words |
| 1919 (May) | To Mr. Emmett Scott | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) demands that Emmett Scott answer why Black soldiers faced mistreatment in France, exposing racial failures in the military. | 189 words |
| 1919 (May) | Returning Soldiers | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) returns from war to demand racial justice, condemning lynching, disenfranchisement, and economic theft. | 602 words |
| 1919 (May) | Robert R. Moton | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) criticizes R.R. Moton for sidelining Black troops, abandoning Pan-African work, and enabling racial deference. | 735 words |
| 1919 (May) | Soldiers | In 1919 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis documents Black soldiers’ valor abroad and demands equal military rank, commissioned officers, and racial justice at home. | 391 words |
| 1919 (May) | The Colored Voter | In 1919 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues that off-year elections shape democracy, urging Black voters to research candidates and defeat disloyal officials. | 364 words |
| 1919 (May) | Letters | In 1919 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges southern white women to challenge disfranchisement, Jim Crow, lynching, and racial inequality in education and labor. | 251 words |
| 1919 (May) | Flaming Arrows | In The Crisis (1919) W.E.B. Du Bois argues Wilson’s rhetoric of democracy and justice exposes U.S. racial hypocrisy toward Black and colonized peoples. | 264 words |
| 1919 (May) | Patriotism | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) argues WWI forged a new patriotism—Americans now fight for democracy, justice, and labor rights. | 394 words |
| 1919 (May) | Heroes | In The Crisis (1919), W.E.B. Du Bois honors Southern Black men and women whose nonviolent endurance demands racial dignity and freedom. | 241 words |
| 1919 (May) | A Statement | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) declares a critical racial moment, urging lawful resistance, NAACP organizing, and a fight against Jim Crow. | 317 words |
| 1919 (May) | Social Equality | In The Crisis (1919), W.E.B. Du Bois rebukes white panic over social equality, arguing Black aims are voting, education and civil rights. | 191 words |
| 1919 (May) | The League of Nations | In 1919 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges pragmatic support for the League of Nations to secure peace and advance racial democracy against imperialism. | 256 words |
| 1919 (Apr) | Balls | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) celebrates Black social balls as vibrant displays of race, culture, and community pride that challenge racial stereotypes. | 194 words |
| 1919 (Apr) | The True Brownies | In 1919 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis announces The Brownies’ Book to educate Black children in racial pride, history, and universal brotherhood. | 574 words |
| 1919 (Apr) | Shillady and Texas | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) castigates Texas for lynching, disenfranchisement, and racial violence that deny Blacks land, education, and democracy | 536 words |
| 1919 (Apr) | The War History | In 1919 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges readers to preserve records documenting Black soldiers’ labor, service, and race relations in WWI. | 417 words |
| 1919 (Apr) | The Riot at Longview, Texas | In a 1919 The Crisis article, W.E.B. Du Bois documents the Longview, Texas race riot, exposing white violence and Black self-defense amid lawlessness. | 1,070 words |
| 1919 (Apr) | Chicago and Its Eight Reasons | In The Crisis (1919), W.E.B. Du Bois traces eight causes of Chicago race riots—race prejudice, labor competition, police failure, press lies, housing. | 2,561 words |
| 1919 (Apr) | Byrnes | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) condemns Rep. Byrnes for defending disenfranchisement and white supremacist violence, urging legal action | 424 words |
| 1919 (Apr) | For What | In a 1919 The Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois contrasts Parisian decency with U.S. racism and urges Black Americans to join European democracy. | 239 words |
| 1919 (Mar) | Labor Omnia Vincit | In 1919 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues labor must claim its due: racial justice, democratic equality, and Black workers’ rightful wages. | 406 words |
| 1919 (Mar) | The American Legion | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) condemns the American Legion’s racial exclusion of Black veterans and urges organized resistance to defend democracy. | 327 words |
| 1919 (Mar) | Forward | In a 1919 Crisis Forward, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black readers to study labor struggles, public-utility ownership, and global fights for democracy and worker rule. | 433 words |
| 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. | 279 words |
| 1919 (Mar) | The Riots: An N.A.A.C.P. Investigation | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) reports NAACP probes into race riots, exposing mob violence, press incitement, and Black self-defense. | 1,969 words |
| 1919 (Mar) | Let us Reason Together | In 1919 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black self-defense against lynching while warning against vengeful violence to uphold law, honor, and democracy. | 451 words |
| 1919 (Mar) | The Black Man in the Revolution of 1914-1918 | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) documents Black soldiers’ valor in WWI, French praise, and persistent U.S. racial discrimination threatening democracy. | 2,892 words |
| 1919 (Mar) | Memorandum to M. Diagne and Others on a Pan-African Congress to be held in Paris in February, 1919 | In 1919 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis proposes a Paris Pan-African Congress to demand race rights, education, land and political voice for Black peoples. | 676 words |
| 1919 (Feb) | Reconstruction and Africa | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) exposes European colonial greed and hypocrisy, urging African self-rule and protection of native labor, culture and rights. | 471 words |
| 1919 (Feb) | Africa | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) shows how European colonial partition and WWI’s aftermath fueled Pan‑Africanism and demands for racial self‑determination. | 486 words |
| 1919 (Jan) | Reconstruction | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1919) calls for Negro reconstruction: integrate schools, build church-led economic co-ops, expand Black labor and political power. | 685 words |
| 1919 (Jan) | Jim Crow | In The Crisis (1919) W.E.B. Du Bois analyzes Jim Crow’s paradox: segregation undermines rights yet spurs Black institutions, urging race unity and prudence. | 570 words |
| 1919 (Jan) | The Future of Africa | 1919: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges ending colonial exploitation and racial prejudice, calling for Pan-African self-rule, education, and labor reform. | 1,370 words |
| 1918 (May) | The Burning of Jim Mc Ilherron: An N.A.A.C.P. Investigation | In a 1918 Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois documents the lynching of Jim McIlherron, exposing racial violence and the failure of justice in the South. | 3,317 words |
| 1918 (May) | Houston: An N.A.A.C.P. Investigation | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) links Houston’s riot to police brutality and racial injustice, documenting harm and new Black migration | 4,500 words |
| 1918 (May) | Co-Operation | 1918: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis advocates cooperative economics as Black labor’s path to industrial emancipation and racial economic empowerment. | 660 words |
| 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. | 629 words |
| 1918 (May) | The Oath of the Negro Voter | In 1918 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis calls Black voters to protect the ballot, demand enfranchisement, justice, and democratic reform via the NAACP. | 472 words |
| 1918 (May) | Hampton | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) criticizes Hampton Institute for curtailing Black education, burying talent, and excluding Black governance. | 1,287 words |
| 1918 (Apr) | The Slaughter of the Innocents | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) condemns Black infant mortality, urging public-health, nutrition, and racial-justice reforms. | 264 words |
| 1918 (Apr) | Blease, Vardaman, Hardwick and Company | In 1918 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns Blease, Vardaman and Hardwick as race-haters undermining democracy and the war against despotism. | 237 words |
| 1918 (Apr) | Houston | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) condemns racial injustice in the Houston military trials, demands officers’ court-martials, civilian punishment, and pardons | 127 words |
| 1918 (Apr) | School | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) urges keeping Black children in school, arguing education — not child labor — ensures racial progress. | 112 words |
| 1918 (Apr) | The Boy Over There | In 1918 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis mourns Black youth lost in WWI and calls the race to support its soldiers, condemning neglect and moral cowardice. | 349 words |
| 1918 (Apr) | Houston and East St. Louis | In 1918 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois documents racial massacres in Houston and East St. Louis, exposing deadly injustice and unequal legal treatment. | 726 words |
| 1918 (Apr) | Attention | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) calls on educated Black men to join the 92nd Division’s field artillery, filling technical, leadership, and labor roles. | 490 words |
| 1918 (Apr) | The Republican Party | In The Crisis (1918), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns the Republican Party as anti-Black and reactionary, exposing racial exclusion in party politics. | 143 words |
| 1918 (Mar) | A Momentous Proposal | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) defends accepting a military commission to advance Black rights, lamenting the government’s shelving of a race-bureau plan. | 502 words |
| 1918 (Mar) | Our Special Grievances | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) praises Black wartime loyalty, urging temporary deference of grievances while demanding eventual full civil rights. | 427 words |
| 1918 (Mar) | The Work of a Mob | In The Crisis (1918) W.E.B. Du Bois documents brutal lynchings in Georgia, exposing racial terror and its assault on Black democracy and life. | 2,346 words |
| 1918 (Mar) | The Reward | In 1918 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues Black wartime loyalty has won citizenship, labor gains, and steps against segregation and lynching. | 410 words |
| 1918 (Mar) | The Black Man and the Unions | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) condemns labor unions’ racial exclusion, arguing they betray democracy by denying Black workers fair labor rights. | 749 words |
| 1918 (Mar) | Crime | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) condemns white Methodist leaders’ bid to expel 350,000 Black members as a racial crime and church hypocrisy. | 460 words |
| 1918 (Feb) | A Philosophy in Time of War | In a 1918 Crisis essay, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black Americans to fight for democracy abroad while demanding justice, citizenship, and racial equality at home. | 570 words |
| 1918 (Feb) | Tillman | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) argues Tillman’s death signals a turn in Southern labor and race politics toward Black enfranchisement. | 223 words |
| 1918 (Feb) | Help Us to Help | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) urges redress of racial grievances—better travel, equal aid, suppression of lynching, securing democracy and war loyalty. | 438 words |
| 1918 (Feb) | Food | In 1918 in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black Americans to reduce meat and embrace vegetables for wartime thrift, health, and racial uplift. | 196 words |
| 1918 (Feb) | The Railroads | In 1918 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues federal control of railroads can end Jim Crow, open union jobs to Black workers, and strengthen Black democracy. | 224 words |
| 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. | 3,200 words |
| 1918 (Feb) | Negro Education | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) blasts Jones’ effort to confine Negro education to industrial labor, demanding college access, representation and reform. | 3,910 words |
| 1918 (Feb) | The Shadow of Years | In a 1918 Crisis memoir, W.E.B. Du Bois traces how education, race, and work shaped his life—from youthful promise to leadership and resolute racial advocacy. | 3,312 words |
| 1918 (Jan) | The Common School | In 1918 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis calls for national aid to democratic common schools: focus on reading, writing, arithmetic and racial representation. | 756 words |
| 1918 (Jan) | Philanthropy and Self Help | In The Crisis (1918), W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black self-help: as philanthropy wanes, Black communities must fund universities to sustain education and democracy. | 812 words |
| 1918 (Jan) | Close Ranks | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) calls on Black Americans to close ranks, set aside grievances, and defend democracy against German militarism. | 190 words |
| 1918 (Jan) | Thirteen | In The Crisis (1918), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns racial injustice: thirteen Black soldiers executed while white perpetrators go free, attacking American justice. | 163 words |
| 1918 (Jan) | Thirteen | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1918) praises the NAACP as the most effective defender of Black civil rights, fighting disenfranchisement, segregation, lynching. | 245 words |
| 1917 (Jun) | Victory | In 1917 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis celebrates a Supreme Court victory against segregation, calling it a milestone for civil rights and democracy. | 259 words |
| 1917 (Jun) | Baker | In 1917 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois praises Secretary Baker’s fair treatment of Black troops and demands a second officers’ training camp to expand Negro officers | 309 words |
| 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. | 980 words |
| 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. | 2,023 words |
| 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. | 897 words |
| 1917 (Jun) | We Should Worry | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) warns white leaders: Black military service or mass industrial migration will boost Black labor power and curb lynching | 369 words |
| 1917 (Jun) | Officers | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) demands Negro officers and separate training camps to combat military racism and defend Black citizenship. | 610 words |
| 1917 (May) | The White Church | In The Crisis 1917, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns the white church’s moral failure on race and calls Christian leaders to confront injustice and industrial theft. | 377 words |
| 1917 (May) | Register and Vote | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) urges Black registration and voting to break the white primary, defend democracy, and win schools and civic reforms. | 337 words |
| 1917 (May) | The Migration | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) argues Black labor’s Great Migration meets Northern demand, exposes Southern racial hypocrisy and threats to Black freedom. | 167 words |
| 1917 (May) | Naval Ruler | In 1917 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis criticizes military imperialism: naval officers govern colonies without training in democratic governance or social needs. | 122 words |
| 1917 (May) | Loyalty | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) rebukes Southern claims of Black disloyalty, defending Black patriotism, migration, and claims to democracy. | 269 words |
| 1917 (May) | A Moral Void | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) condemns Southern moral failure as governors ignore anti-Black lynching, praising Ohio’s pursuit of justice. | 388 words |
| 1917 (Apr) | The South | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) chronicles Southern industrial growth, Black labor and migration, and the racial violence shaping a new, fragile order. | 111 words |
| 1917 (Apr) | The Perpetual Dilemma | In 1917 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black Americans to accept a separate officer training camp to secure military leadership and racial progress. | 538 words |
| 1917 (Apr) | Houston | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) exposes racial injustice in Houston, documenting how disarmed Black soldiers fought back and demanding military justice. | 405 words |
| 1917 (Apr) | Consecration | In a 1917 Crisis essay, W.E.B. Du Bois urges consecration to business and industry, training children for democratic labor to avert social chaos. | 473 words |
| 1917 (Mar) | Civilization in the South | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) condemns Southern culture as entwined with lynching, racist labor hierarchies, and anti-democratic barbarism. | 630 words |
| 1917 (Mar) | The Attempted Lynching of Lube Martin: An N.A.A.C.P. Investigation | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) documents the attempted lynching of Lube Martin and exposes racial terror and legal injustice. | 655 words |
| 1917 (Mar) | The Tuskegee Resolutions | In 1917’s The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois denounces Tuskegee resolutions for urging Black labor to remain South while ignoring lynching and legal injustice. | 296 words |
| 1917 (Mar) | The Massacre in East St. Louis | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) documents the East St. Louis massacre, linking racial terror to labor conflict and failures of democracy and law. | 10,633 words |
| 1917 (Mar) | The Negro Silent Parade | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) documents the Negro Silent Parade, a mass silent protest against race riots, lynching, and injustice. | 1,506 words |
| 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. | 388 words |
| 1917 (Mar) | The Black Bastille | In 1917 in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns America’s ‘Black Bastille’ of racial prejudice that undermines democracy and demands its abolition. | 379 words |
| 1917 (Mar) | East St. Louis | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) condemns the East St. Louis race pogrom as a betrayal of American democracy and insists Black labor will keep moving north. | 163 words |
| 1917 (Mar) | More Suggestions | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) urges Black industrial cooperation—organize businesses and distribution to create jobs and resist racial inequality. | 340 words |
| 1917 (Feb) | Curtains of Pain | In The Crisis (1917), W.E.B. Du Bois portrays pain’s ‘Curtains’ as a crucible of shared humanity and healing that dissolves race and fosters brotherhood. | 202 words |
| 1917 (Feb) | The Present | In 1917 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges the American Negro to fight in war and seize industrial, labor and civic openings to build a colorless democracy. | 198 words |
| 1917 (Feb) | Roosevelt | In 1917 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois praises Theodore Roosevelt’s stand against East St. Louis violence and condemns national hypocrisy on lynching and democracy. | 154 words |
| 1917 (Jan) | Schools | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1917) defends Black secondary and higher schools, denouncing philanthropic gatekeeping that threatens Black education. | 365 words |
| 1917 (Jan) | Promoting Race Prejudice | 1917: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis exposes everyday race prejudice—petty slurs, institutional exclusions and government racial categories undermining democracy | 258 words |
| 1917 (Jan) | Justice | In 1917 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns the Justice Department’s racial hypocrisy, ignoring lynching and disfranchisement while policing alleged German plots. | 223 words |
| 1917 (Jan) | Memphis or East St. Louis? | 1917: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis links lynching, forced labor and union discrimination to Black migration, urging education and federal protection. | 668 words |
| 1916 (Jun) | Tenements | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) exposes philanthropic tenement plans as racial segregation, urging democracy, fair sites, and transparency. | 301 words |
| 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. | 270 words |
| 1916 (Jun) | Consolation | In a 1916 essay in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois exposes how gendered discrimination in medicine reveals racial hypocrisy and entrenched white supremacy. | 464 words |
| 1916 (Jun) | Refinement and Love | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) urges culture, refinement, and love for racial uplift but warns Black freedom may demand grim, violent struggle. | 327 words |
| 1916 (Jun) | Muddle | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) argues NAACP must teach political education so Black voters demand candidates’ positions to defend democracy | 265 words |
| 1916 (May) | The Pageant | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) depicts a 1,250‑person Pageant marking the AME Church centennial and asserting Black civic pride. | 227 words |
| 1916 (May) | The Pageant | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) spotlights a mass Pageant celebrating the AME Church’s centennial, staging Black religious history and racial pride. | 227 words |
| 1916 (May) | To the Rescue | In The Crisis (1916) W.E.B. Du Bois criticizes U.S. policy as Black troops fight to defend white liberties abroad, urging race-based self-defense and rights. | 147 words |
| 1916 (May) | Public Schools | In The Crisis 1916, W.E.B. Du Bois charges Southern public schools with shaping Black servants, undermining education, democracy, and racial equality. | 240 words |
| 1916 (May) | Social Equality | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) condemns white Southern efforts to re-enslave and argues education and interracial contact are vital for race equality. | 331 words |
| 1916 (May) | Public Schools | In 1916 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns Southern use of public education to uphold race and class, arguing schools must foster democracy, not servitude. | 240 words |
| 1916 (May) | Southern Civilization | In 1916 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Southern oligarchy for lynching, disfranchisement, and opposing national suffrage to preserve white supremacy. | 348 words |
| 1916 (May) | Mr. Hughes | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) warns Republican promises won’t buy Black votes; demands specific racial and democratic commitments from Hughes. | 200 words |
| 1916 (May) | Presidential Candidates | In 1916 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Charles Evans Hughes to oppose lynching, disfranchisement and segregation to protect race equality and democracy. | 662 words |
| 1916 (Apr) | The Church | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) criticizes the white church’s hypocrisy and urges the Black church to lead democratic social uplift. | 374 words |
| 1916 (Apr) | Peonage | 1916: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns peonage as slavery reborn, exposing how coerced labor and lynching enforce racial domination. | 897 words |
| 1916 (Apr) | Three Churches | In 1916 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis documents how three Negro churches advance education, social uplift, and community democracy through institution-building. | 836 words |
| 1916 (Apr) | Intermarriage | In 1916 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns anti-intermarriage laws as racial injustice, exposing how courts use law to ruin a mixed-race girl’s life. | 233 words |
| 1916 (Apr) | Cowardice | In 1916 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Black passivity before lynching, urges armed self‑defense to confront racial terror and save democracy. | 352 words |
| 1916 (Apr) | The Presidential Campaign | In The Crisis 1916, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Democratic betrayal of Black voters and warns Republicans like Hughes will offer neglect, not justice. | 256 words |
| 1916 (Apr) | The Negro Party | In a 1916 Crisis essay, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black voters to form a Negro Party—vote as a unit to win political power and racial justice. | 408 words |
| 1916 (Apr) | Migration | In 1916 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges Black southerners to migrate North to escape lynching, gain education and labor opportunities. | 314 words |
| 1916 (Mar) | The Negro Public School | In The Crisis (1916), W.E.B. Du Bois attacks racialized public education, arguing vocational training enforces caste and undermines democracy. | 375 words |
| 1916 (Mar) | The Cherokee Fires: An N.A.A.C.P. Investigation | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) exposes arson and terror in Cherokee as an NAACP probe showing racial violence and labor-driven dispossession. | 3,495 words |
| 1916 (Mar) | St. Louis | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) critiques St. Louis segregation, documenting Black mobilization, white paternalism, and threats to racial equality. | 491 words |
| 1916 (Mar) | Brandeis | In 1916 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues Brandeis’s nomination brings a minority, labor‑friendly voice to the Supreme Court to advance race and democracy. | 186 words |
| 1916 (Mar) | Conduct, Not Color | In a 1916 article in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues race, not just conduct, shapes Black advancement and exposes limits of color-blind claims. | 91 words |
| 1916 (Mar) | The Battle of Europe | 1916 — In The Crisis W.E.B. Du Bois argues WWI exposes Western civilization’s brutality, prompting racial pride, democratic change, and cultural renewal. | 500 words |
| 1916 (Mar) | The Colored Audience | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) urges Black audiences to cultivate intelligent appreciation, linking race, culture and education to uplift colored theater. | 235 words |
| 1916 (Feb) | That Capital ‘N’ | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) argues that capitalizing Negro affirms racial dignity and rejects a legacy of slavery and editorial bias. | 337 words |
| 1916 (Feb) | Germany | In 1916 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns Germany’s colonial racism, documenting massacres like the Herero slaughter and contrasting French comradeship. | 362 words |
| 1916 (Feb) | Lies Agreed Upon | In 1916 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis denounces erasure of Black achievement, arguing racial prejudice rewrites history and denies nonwhite role in civilization. | 237 words |
| 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. | 779 words |
| 1916 (Feb) | The Drama Among Black Folk | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1916) champions Black pageantry as folk drama and racial education, shows its artistic promise and financial neglect. | 1,842 words |
| 1916 (Feb) | Ireland | In a 1916 The Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black solidarity with Ireland, condemning English oppression and historic racialized labor conflict. | 207 words |
| 1916 (Feb) | Carrizal | In The Crisis (1916), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns U.S. racism: Carrizal’s Black soldiers’ sacrifice exposes hypocrisy—honored in death, denied rights in life. | 200 words |
| 1915 (Jun) | The Star of Ethiopia | In 1915 W.E.B. Du Bois recounts staging The Star of Ethiopia pageant in The Crisis, showing race pride, education, and community triumph. | 1,168 words |
| 1915 (Jun) | The Elections | In 1915 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis shows how Black voter education determined woman suffrage outcomes and challenged Republican race politics. | 281 words |
| 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 | 419 words |
| 1915 (Jun) | Haiti | In a 1915 essay in The Crisis W.E.B. Du Bois exposes U.S. intervention in Haiti as racial domination, linking State Dept. policy to lynching and white supremacy. | 537 words |
| 1915 (Jun) | An Open Letter | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) charges Southern race policy with lynching, disenfranchisement, schooling and labor exclusion and demands organized justice. | 1,420 words |
| 1915 (Jun) | Lusitania | In a 1915 essay for The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns World War I as the unveiling of Western racial and imperial hypocrisy, affirming Black moral vindication. | 300 words |
| 1915 (Jun) | An Amazing Island | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) celebrates Jamaica’s post-color-line society while exposing severe labor exploitation and endemic poverty. | 641 words |
| 1915 (May) | The Risk of Woman Suffrage | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) warns that woman suffrage threatens social harmony and family roles, arguing gender differences shape politics. | 1,024 words |
| 1915 (May) | We Come of Age | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) celebrates five years of the Black press’s growth, achieving self-support and securing the editor’s salary. | 235 words |
| 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. | 790 words |
| 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. | 164 words |
| 1915 (May) | Peace | 1915: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues that peace movements fail by ignoring race, colonial rule, and white supremacy as root causes of war. | 158 words |
| 1915 (May) | Credit | In 1915 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges unity: credit for resisting racist legislation belongs to collective Black agitation and NAACP-led democracy fights. | 358 words |
| 1915 (May) | The Fourteenth Amendment | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) urges Congress to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment and reduce Southern representation to protect Black democracy. | 106 words |
| 1915 (Apr) | Hayti | In 1915 The Crisis W.E.B. Du Bois condemns U.S. intervention in Hayti as racist imperialism, calling citizens to protest and defend sovereignty. | 249 words |
| 1915 (Apr) | Woman Suffrage | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) argues Black voters must support woman suffrage as a democratic, racial-justice duty that advances equality. | 242 words |
| 1915 (Apr) | The Immediate Program of the American Negro | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) demands full political, industrial, and social equality, urging law reform, education, labor action, and organization. | 1,954 words |
| 1915 (Mar) | Young | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis 1915 honors Major Charles Young, praising his military and civic service and resilient defiance of racial abuse. | 412 words |
| 1915 (Mar) | Preparedness | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) argues that true national preparedness requires ending lynching and securing racial justice under law. | 415 words |
| 1915 (Mar) | A Pageant | In 1915 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis launches the Horizon Guild to stage pageants of Negro history, advancing race pride, democracy, and cultural education. | 553 words |
| 1915 (Mar) | Colored Chicago | 1915 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis profiles Chicago’s 50,000 Black residents, their labor, housing, schools, institutions, and racial barriers to advancement. | 795 words |
| 1915 (Mar) | Other Organizations | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) defends documenting NAACP civil‑rights actions in detail as its organ, while pledging fair coverage of others. | 206 words |
| 1915 (Mar) | Some Chicagoans of Note | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) profiles Black Chicago leaders, physicians, politicians, clergy and entrepreneurs, linking race, civic life and business. | 1,641 words |
| 1915 (Mar) | Hayti | In 1915 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges America to save Hayti, defend Black sovereignty and democracy, and oppose imperialist graft. | 251 words |
| 1915 (Mar) | The Grandfather Clause | In The Crisis (1915), W.E.B. Du Bois exposes the Grandfather Clause as a racist tool undermining Black democracy, education, and labor rights. | 324 words |
| 1915 (Mar) | The White Christ | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) criticizes white Christianity’s wartime hypocrisy and praises the democratic, inclusive Negro church. | 297 words |
| 1915 (Mar) | An Old Folks’ Home | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) documents Black-led charity: race-based philanthropy and old-folks’ homes sustaining elders while urging public support. | 380 words |
| 1915 (Mar) | Organization | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis 1915 urges Black Americans to emulate Jewish organization, arguing race uplift needs education, charity and civic unity. | 451 words |
| 1915 (Feb) | Frank | In The Crisis (1915), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Southern racial and religious prejudice and the legal failures that nearly led to Leo Frank’s lynching. | 255 words |
| 1915 (Feb) | The Lynching Industry | In 1915 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois documents the 1914 lynching industry, exposing racial violence and the hypocrisy undermining American democracy. | 1,502 words |
| 1915 (Feb) | Suffrage and Women | In 1915 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis warns that suffrage allies use racist, nativist calculations that endanger democracy and the women’s movement. | 114 words |
| 1915 (Feb) | The President | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) sharply criticizes President Wilson’s insincere, Jim-Crow-promoting stance that betrays race and democracy. | 347 words |
| 1915 (Jan) | Education | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1915) condemns vocational limits on Black education as deliberate attack on race, democracy, and full intellectual development. | 1,487 words |
| 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. | 329 words |
| 1914 (Jun) | Murder | In 1914 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis shows how race prejudice fuels nationwide violence and unusually high murder rates, exposing a moral crisis. | 219 words |
| 1914 (Jun) | Y.M.C.A | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) praises Black YMCAs’ growth but condemns YMCA racial segregation as unchristian, unjust, and dangerous to race justice. | 288 words |
| 1914 (Jun) | William Monroe Trotter | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) praises William Monroe Trotter’s fearless defense of Black equality and criticizes Wilson’s paternalistic race views. | 212 words |
| 1914 (Jun) | The Christmas Prayers of God | In a 1914 piece in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns war, imperial exploitation, racial violence and lynching, pleading to God for justice and mercy. | 973 words |
| 1914 (Jun) | Supreme Court | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) calls on the Supreme Court to reject grandfather clauses, Jim Crow and peonage to protect Black rights. | 206 words |
| 1914 (Jun) | The Election | In 1914 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis criticizes parties for ignoring 500,000 Black voters, arguing race and democracy force political reckoning. | 138 words |
| 1914 (Jun) | Negro | In 1914 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues that capitalizing Negro asserts racial respect and public recognition against dismissive usage. | 154 words |
| 1914 (Jun) | The Congressmen and the NAACP | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) exposes congressmen’s evasions on race, lynching, segregation and intermarriage, urging NAACP political accountability. | 1,654 words |
| 1914 (Jun) | Mexico | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) warns a war on Mexico would be racialized imperialism—exploiting labor, dishonoring democracy and civilization. | 229 words |
| 1914 (Jun) | Senators’ Records | In 1914 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis exposes Senate suffrage debates invoking race, naming senators who backed disfranchisement and threatened democracy. | 613 words |
| 1914 (May) | The Burden of Black Women | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) condemns white supremacy’s burden on Black women, exposing racial and gender injustice. | 634 words |
| 1914 (May) | A Correspondence | In 1914 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns the General Federation’s racial exclusion of Black women’s clubs, defending black women’s self‑respect. | 637 words |
| 1914 (May) | World War and the Color Line | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) argues World War stems from imperialism and the color line, warning race prejudice fuels global conflict. | 1,200 words |
| 1914 (May) | A Question of Policy and The Philosophy of Mr. Dole | 1914 The Crisis: W.E.B. Du Bois rejects conciliatory friends whose silence enables lynching and racial injustice, demanding Black democracy and voting rights. | 2,342 words |
| 1914 (Apr) | Brazil | In 1914 in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois rebukes Roosevelt, defending Brazil’s racial fusion and warning U.S. racism fuels poverty, lynching, and undermines democracy. | 808 words |
| 1914 (Apr) | Does Organization Pay? | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) urges Black unity and NAACP membership, arguing organized action is essential to secure racial rights and democracy. | 408 words |
| 1914 (Apr) | Veiled Insults | In 1914 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis exposes refusal to capitalize Negro as a racial insult, critiquing supposed egalitarian rhetoric. | 314 words |
| 1914 (Apr) | Of the Children of Peace | 1914: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns war as organized murder, urging mothers and children to demand peace and end death and hunger. | 810 words |
| 1914 (Mar) | A Little Play | In a 1914 issue of The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois satirizes racial prejudice, exposing how claims of ‘inferiority’ deny equality and humane treatment. | 295 words |
| 1914 (Mar) | Booming The Crisis | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) defends The Crisis’s independence, rebukes the Washington Bee, critiques race weeklies’ facts and urges principled advocacy. | 425 words |
| 1914 (Mar) | Lynching | In 1914 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois exposes how suppressed reporting masks lynching’s rise, documenting race-based violence and challenging ineffective reforms. | 381 words |
| 1914 (Mar) | Taxation without Representation | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) exposes how Black Memphis taxpayers fund education, parks, and infrastructure yet lack representation and democratic rights. | 727 words |
| 1914 (Mar) | A Crusade | In 1914 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges a new abolitionist crusade for race justice and democracy, calling for mass organization and support for the NAACP. | 478 words |
| 1914 (Mar) | Does Race Antagonism Serve Any Good Purpose | In 1914 W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis that race antagonism is taught, not instinctive, and undermines education, democracy, and human uplift. | 1,034 words |
| 1914 (Mar) | The Story of Africa | In The Crisis (1914), W.E.B. Du Bois celebrates Africa’s great civilizations and condemns the violence of empire, trade and slavery. | 844 words |
| 1914 (Feb) | The South in the Saddle | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) exposes how Southern disfranchisement inflates Congressional power, forcing national policy and undermining democracy. | 315 words |
| 1914 (Feb) | Work for Black Folk in 1914 | In 1914 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges a bold program to defend Black property, labor, education, civil rights, and democracy from racial oppression. | 589 words |
| 1914 (Feb) | The Negro and the Land | In The Crisis (1914), W.E.B. Du Bois argues that disenfranchisement, education cuts and segregationist laws actively block Black land ownership and democracy. | 1,210 words |
| 1914 (Feb) | Migration | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) warns Oklahoma’s migration to Africa is dangerous: Africa needs capital and skilled leadership, not untrained labor. | 176 words |
| 1914 (Feb) | Resistance | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) argues Hindu and Chinese resistance to white oppression reveals racial injustice and undermines the oppressor’s power. | 74 words |
| 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. | 521 words |
| 1914 (Feb) | The Prize Fighter | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) argues press outrage over Jack Johnson reveals white racist backlash—sporting morality masks racial hypocrisy. | 384 words |
| 1914 (Feb) | Votes for Women | 1914: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues Black support for women’s suffrage strengthens democracy, challenges racial disfranchisement, and advances justice. | 830 words |
| 1914 (Jan) | The Song of the Smoke | In a 1914 poem for The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois makes ‘smoke’ a black emblem of industrial labor, exposing race, toil, and modernity’s moral costs. | 403 words |
| 1914 (Jan) | Join or Die | In The Crisis (1914), W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black Americans to join the NAACP, mobilize against racial prejudice, and defend democracy. | 444 words |
| 1914 (Jan) | Free, White and Twenty One | In 1914 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges “free, white and twenty-one” citizens to join the NAACP, arguing race prejudice endangers democracy and labor. | 441 words |
| 1914 (Jan) | The Alleged Failure of Democracy | In 1914 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues Reconstruction’s alleged failure is a fiction: Black enfranchisement built public education and advanced democracy. | 921 words |
| 1914 (Jan) | Logic | In The Crisis 1914, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns arrests of unemployed Black men as racist labor exploitation that criminalizes race and undermines democracy. | 115 words |
| 1914 (Jan) | Real Estate in New York | In 1914 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black New Yorkers to hold strategic property and mobilize institutions to thwart racist real-estate displacement. | 397 words |
| 1914 (Jan) | The Cause of Lynching | In 1914 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues lynching enforces racial control, falsely justified as crime suppression and undermines justice. | 293 words |
| 1914 (Jan) | College Education | In The Crisis (1914), W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black families to pursue rigorous college education as the path to racial freedom and dignified labor. | 223 words |
| 1914 (Jan) | Muddle | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1914) condemns northern reformers’ cowardice and southern segregation, urging race-aware social reform and democracy. | 990 words |
| 1913 (Nov) | The People of Peoples and Their Gifts to Men | W.E.B. Du Bois stages a 1913 pageant in The Crisis celebrating Black contributions to civilization, labor, faith and the struggle for freedom. | 2,223 words |
| 1913 (Nov) | Another Open Letter to Woodrow Wilson | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) denounces federal segregation, warns Wilson this assault on race, democracy, and votes will cost political support. | 1,138 words |
| 1913 (Jun) | The Strength of Segregation | In 1913 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois warns segregation will forge Black racial unity and strength, undermining white supremacy and reshaping American democracy. | 305 words |
| 1913 (Jun) | The Three Wise Men | In his 1913 essay for The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois frames a Christmas parable that reclaims spiritual birth and uplifts the lowly, centering Black ministry. | 1,504 words |
| 1913 (Jun) | The Episcopal Church | In 1913 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns the Episcopal Church’s role in slavery, racial hypocrisy, and refusal to support Black education and rights. | 546 words |
| 1913 (Jun) | Education | In The Crisis (1913), W.E.B. Du Bois urges Americans to confront the race problem through education and hard knowledge, not cowardly denial. | 381 words |
| 1913 (Jun) | Education | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) warns democracy is at risk unless lynching, disfranchisement and racial discrimination are confronted. | 209 words |
| 1913 (Jun) | The Next Step | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) urges lasting NAACP organization to track and defeat anti-Black intermarriage bill sponsors at primaries. | 294 words |
| 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. | 604 words |
| 1913 (May) | The Clansman | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) denounces Dixon’s The Clansman as racist propaganda that falsifies history and urges suppression to defend racial justice. | 568 words |
| 1913 (May) | The Simple Way | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) rejects simple fixes for the Negro problem, arguing self-help rhetoric masks racial exploitation, dispossession, and Jim Crow. | 303 words |
| 1913 (May) | The Vigilance Committee: A Call To Arms | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) urges federating local vigilance committees into NAACP branches to combat racial discrimination via law, education, and civic action. | 1,406 words |
| 1913 (May) | Woman’s Suffrage | In The Crisis (1913), W.E.B. Du Bois celebrates defeats of the color line in women’s suffrage and urges Black men and women to fight for a race-blind democracy. | 137 words |
| 1913 (May) | Peace | In 1913 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois criticizes American peace leaders for ignoring colonial imperialism, urging democratic, anti-racist peace over aristocratic dignity. | 340 words |
| 1913 (Apr) | The Hurt Hound | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) condemns racial degradation, arguing racism twists Black dignity so mere decency feels like ecstatic relief. | 368 words |
| 1913 (Apr) | Easter-Emancipation 1863-1913 | In a 1913 poem for The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois mourns Black sacrifice since 1863 and affirms hard-won freedom, memory, and the cost of race and liberation. | 1,359 words |
| 1913 (Apr) | The “Jim Crow” Argument | In 1913 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Jim Crow segregation as a racial tyranny that destroys democracy and insists on social equality. | 346 words |
| 1913 (Apr) | Hail Columbia | Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) condemns white supremacy and gendered violence at the suffrage parade, exposing racial hypocrisy and threats to democracy. | 807 words |
| 1913 (Apr) | The Princess of the Hither Isles | In a 1913 fable in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns racial exclusion and imperial greed, showing how white supremacy dehumanizes and destroys. | 1,529 words |
| 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. | 604 words |
| 1913 (Mar) | The Proper Way | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) urges constant agitation against disfranchisement, Jim Crow, and lynching to defend Black democracy. | 592 words |
| 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. | 1,169 words |
| 1913 (Mar) | The Fruit of the Tree | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) condemns rhetoric of Black subservience as causing disenfranchisement, segregation and lynching, and calls for resistance. | 243 words |
| 1913 (Feb) | Intermarriage | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) condemns anti-miscegenation laws as racist, degrading to Black women and a threat to justice and social decency. | 605 words |
| 1913 (Feb) | Blessed Discrimination | 1913: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues that racial discrimination cripples education, business and health — it harms Black progress, not aids it. | 1,263 words |
| 1913 (Feb) | Burleson | 1913 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns Burleson’s push to segregate the federal civil service, links race exclusion to lynching, and urges action. | 672 words |
| 1913 (Feb) | Slavery | In 1913 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns South African slavery and disfranchisement, showing how race and labor deny democracy and human life. | 302 words |
| 1913 (Feb) | Civil Rights | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) denounces the Supreme Court’s repeal of civil-rights protections, arguing it exposes a racial betrayal of American democracy | 232 words |
| 1913 (Feb) | Orphans | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) exposes race prejudice and mismanagement at the Colored Orphan Asylum and urges competence, equality, and Black governance. | 890 words |
| 1913 (Jan) | Our Own Consent | In 1913 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues that collective protest against Jim Crow and disfranchisement can force America to face racial injustice. | 293 words |
| 1913 (Jan) | Emancipation | In 1913 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns post-Emancipation rollback, arguing for a national fight for race, democracy, education and labor rights. | 791 words |
| 1913 (Jan) | The Newest South | In 1913 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis lauds the newest South where interracial leaders openly confront race problems and denounces the old South’s racist press. | 189 words |
| 1913 (Jan) | I Go A-Talking | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1913) chronicles a 7,000-mile tour, documenting Black communities, exposing Jim Crow segregation, and urging racial uplift. | 1,550 words |
| 1912 (Jun) | Decency | W.E.B. Du Bois, The Crisis (1912): exposes German legal endorsement of interracial marriage as a critique of white supremacy and Western decency. | 189 words |
| 1912 (Jun) | Education | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that education should train minds for life, not just trades, urging broad schooling for Black children and democracy. | 1,104 words |
| 1912 (Jun) | Suffering Suffragettes | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that race shapes suffrage battles, exposing democracy’s flaws and demanding equal rights for women of all colors. | 892 words |
| 1912 (Jun) | The Odd Fellows | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1912) argues the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows must educate Black voters to strengthen democracy and prevent oligarchy. | 571 words |
| 1912 (Jun) | The Election | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1912) defends Black support for Wilson, warns of Southern racism and disfranchisement, and urges real justice and democracy. | 640 words |
| 1912 (Jun) | The Truth | In 1912 W.E.B. Du Bois (The Crisis) demands a Renaissance of truth, exposing press silences and misrepresentations of Black life, race, and democracy. | 851 words |
| 1912 (Jun) | The Black Mother | In The Crisis (1912), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns the ‘mammy’ myth, urging respect for Black motherhood, economic justice, and dignity in domestic labor. | 394 words |
| 1912 (May) | The Negro Church | Du Bois in The Crisis (1912) analyzes the Negro church’s leadership, arguing for honest, educated ministers and active programs in education and social uplift. | 596 words |
| 1912 (May) | The Colored Magazine in America | W.E.B. Du Bois charts the history of Black magazines and their struggles for voice, press power, and race advocacy in The Crisis (1912). | 1,337 words |
| 1912 (May) | The Second Birthday | In 1912 W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis that a Black press is vital for race publicity and democracy, urging support despite financial struggle. | 1,171 words |
| 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. | 607 words |
| 1912 (Apr) | The Servant in the South | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1912), shows how Southern house service exploits Black labor with low pay and abuse, urging dignity, fair wages, and reform. | 595 words |
| 1912 (Apr) | In God’s Gardens | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1912), argues for North–South unity and an interracial future, urging democracy beyond fear and prejudice. | 204 words |
| 1912 (Apr) | Vital Statistics | W.E.B. Du Bois debunks a white-supremacist claim about Black mortality in The Crisis (1912), documenting declining Negro death rates with census data. | 408 words |
| 1912 (Apr) | Of Children | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1912) argues that children symbolize democracy’s future and moral responsibility, urging society to protect and nurture youth. | 150 words |
| 1912 (Mar) | Divine Right | W. E. B. Du Bois, The Crisis (1912) exposes racist divine-right myths, condemns lynching, and challenges white prerogatives in a provocative crisis-era argument | 439 words |
| 1912 (Mar) | Homes | Du Bois, The Crisis, 1912: Homes exposes housing discrimination against Black families and condemns biased real estate, unlike other Crisis pieces. | 272 words |
| 1912 (Mar) | Lee | Du Bois argues in The Crisis (Mar. 1912) that victory isn’t virtue; unlike other Crisis pieces, he contrasts Washington and Lee to show moral choice matters. | 557 words |
| 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. | 974 words |
| 1912 (Mar) | Virginia Christian | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1912) shows how Virginia’s white-supremacist order denies education, produces poverty, and murders Virginia Christian. | 222 words |
| 1912 (Mar) | Mr. Roosevelt | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1912), exposes Theodore Roosevelt’s racism toward Black Americans and argues for equal rights, voting, and democracy. | 948 words |
| 1912 (Mar) | Two Suffrage Movements | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1912), argues that women’s suffrage and Black emancipation share a democratic struggle, urging universal rights for all. | 1,932 words |
| 1912 (Mar) | Colored Women as Voters | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that colored women gain political power through voting to shape education, housing, and justice, advancing democracy. | 752 words |
| 1912 (Mar) | Votes for Women | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1912) urges Black voters to back women’s suffrage, tying democracy, racial justice, and uplift to universal enfranchisement. | 535 words |
| 1912 (Mar) | Garrison and Woman’s Suffrage | W.E.B. Du Bois argues abolition and women’s rights are linked, citing Garrison’s support for the Grimke sisters and the 1840 convention in The Crisis, 1912. | 1,241 words |
| 1912 (Mar) | Brother Baptis’ on Woman Suffrage | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that Black women and voters unite for suffrage and democracy, exposing how racism and sexism oppress both. | 237 words |
| 1912 (Feb) | The Durbar | W.E.B. Du Bois, The Crisis (1912), argues the Indian Durbar yields real concessions won by sustained agitation—education, autonomy, and inclusion—unlike mere honors. | 369 words |
| 1912 (Feb) | The Gall of Bitterness | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (Feb. 1912) that bitter truth, not sugarcoated wit, reveals racial antagonism, combats lynching myths, and demands justice. | 633 words |
| 1912 (Feb) | China | Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that China’s revolution reveals humane modernity and fights white supremacy, challenging Crisis-era racial narratives. | 243 words |
| 1912 (Feb) | Light | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1912) counters the ‘child’ Negro myth, showing Phelps-Stokes-funded education reveals Black humanity beyond stereotype. | 596 words |
| 1912 (Feb) | Anarchism | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that extortion by Southern officials manufactures Black crime, exposing white supremacy and harm to the poor. | 149 words |
| 1912 (Feb) | Politics | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that Black votes hold the balance of power, urging strategic demands for democracy, justice, and education reforms. | 1,111 words |
| 1912 (Feb) | Ohio | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that Ohio women’s suffrage boosts Black political influence, linking democracy, race and labor to win freedom. | 412 words |
| 1912 (Jan) | Crime and Lynching | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that lynching provokes crime; stop lynching to stop crime, a humane critique grounded in Florida and vagrancy abuses. | 968 words |
| 1912 (Jan) | A Mild Suggestion | W.E.B. Du Bois presents a biting satirical dialogue in The Crisis (Jan 1912) examining ‘solutions’ to the Negro problem, contrasting reform talk with violence. | 1,211 words |
| 1912 (Jan) | Fraud and Imitation | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1912), exposes impostors who exploit white praise and counterfeit educational groups to undermine Black progress and unity. | 461 words |
| 1912 (Jan) | The Third Battle of Bull Run | Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1912) that the third battle at Manassas is for Black education and democracy, funding a school as resistance. | 648 words |
| 1912 (Jan) | Organized Labor | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1912), shows organized labor excluding Black workers and white-supremacist union tactics, urging labor to serve humanity. | 546 words |
| 1911 (Jun) | The Sin Against the Holy Ghost | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1911), argues deceit for political gain is the unforgivable sin, corroding Black humanity, race dignity, and democracy. | 592 words |
| 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. | 3,270 words |
| 1911 (Jun) | The Cost of Education | W.E.B. Du Bois shows how Black taxpayers subsidize white schooling and underfunded colored schools, exposing race and education injustice in The Crisis (1911). | 400 words |
| 1911 (Jun) | Joseph Pulitzer | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) analyzes Joseph Pulitzer, noting the New York World’s fair treatment of Black Americans amid harsh press rivalries. | 351 words |
| 1911 (Jun) | Christmas Gift | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1911), calls the 1911 vote a Christmas gift for Black voters, detailing disenfranchisement battles and political leverage. | 331 words |
| 1911 (Jun) | Starvation and Prejudice | 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis argues Washington’s minimization of Southern race wrongs lets prejudice, lynching and disfranchisement threaten democracy. | 786 words |
| 1911 (Jun) | Education | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) urges national education reform, exposing how racial inequality and weak schools betray American democracy. | 542 words |
| 1911 (Jun) | Education | In The Crisis (1911), W.E.B. Du Bois argues that education and philanthropy must restrain profit-driven business to preserve labor and democracy. | 1,063 words |
| 1911 (May) | Christianity Rampant | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1911) that practical Christianity masks imperial cruelty; he links church complicity to wars, conquest, and racial justice. | 319 words |
| 1911 (May) | The Census | W.E.B. Du Bois argues in The Crisis (1911) that Census data debunk white supremacy, showing Black growth and economic progress redefine race and democracy. | 478 words |
| 1911 (May) | ‘Ezekielism’ | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1911), exposes ‘Ezekielism’: the prejudiced habit of imputing a group’s flaws to individuals, harming Black life and democracy. | 503 words |
| 1911 (May) | The Quadroon | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1911), champions humanity beyond race, using lyrical praise of mixed heritage to critique white supremacy and defend democracy. | 106 words |
| 1911 (May) | ‘Social Equality’ | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) argues that ‘social equality’ means humanity for Black Americans, exposing Southern hypocrisy and urging education and labor. | 555 words |
| 1911 (May) | Prejudice | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) denounces cultivated race prejudice in America and urges citizens to resist lies that undermine democracy. | 370 words |
| 1911 (May) | Violations of Property Rights | In a 1911 essay in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois shows how race prejudice, municipal policy, wage bias and mob/legal violence violate Black property rights. | 3,074 words |
| 1911 (Apr) | Knowledge | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) rebukes Southern “knowledge,” using census data on suicide and nervous disease to expose false racial claims. | 231 words |
| 1911 (Apr) | Forward Backward | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) critiques how the ‘Negro question’ stalls democracy and reform—exposing suffrage and moral hypocrisy. | 639 words |
| 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. | 543 words |
| 1911 (Apr) | Mr. Taft | 1911: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns Taft’s race policies, rejecting Southern guardianship over Black education, voting rights and justice. | 555 words |
| 1911 (Apr) | The Truth | In 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges telling the full truth about race and Southern injustice, warning that silence fuels oppression. | 413 words |
| 1911 (Apr) | The Writer | In 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis mourns Frances Harper and urges investment in Black literature, education, and developing writers for racial democracy. | 324 words |
| 1911 (Apr) | Smith Jones | In a 1911 Crisis piece W.E.B. Du Bois exposes how race blocks a Black poet’s access to education, criminalizing ambition and denying opportunity. | 501 words |
| 1911 (Mar) | Promotion of Prejudice | In 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis exposes syndicated racist editorials that manufacture race prejudice across North and South and threaten democracy. | 732 words |
| 1911 (Mar) | Triumph | In a 1911 Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns lynching and white‑supremacist mob violence, urging Black resistance for justice and democracy. | 638 words |
| 1911 (Mar) | The Races in Congress | In 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis reports on the First Universal Races Congress, urging education, interracial understanding, and global action on race. | 3,335 words |
| 1911 (Mar) | The World in Council | In 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis praises the First Universal Races Congress as a moral victory for race equality and condemns U.S. racial policy. | 485 words |
| 1911 (Mar) | Social Equality | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) insists social equality is essential to civil and political rights and condemns Black leaders’ acceptance of pariah status. | 326 words |
| 1911 (Mar) | The Methodist Church, North | In The Crisis 1911, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns the Methodist Church, North for sidelining Black leadership and trading racial justice for reunion with the South. | 394 words |
| 1911 (Mar) | The Blair Bill | In 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis urges revival of the Blair Bill, arguing federal education aid is essential for democracy and racial justice. | 772 words |
| 1911 (Mar) | The White Primary | In The Crisis (1911) W.E.B. Du Bois shows how the white primary lets party bosses bar Black voters, disenfranchising citizens and threatening democracy. | 801 words |
| 1911 (Mar) | Politeness | In 1911 in The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois argues that racial codes of politeness impose costs, urging Black dignity and condemning white hypocrisy. | 369 words |
| 1911 (Feb) | London | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) depicts London as imperial capital where racial empire and rising colored peoples foreshadow a global race conference. | 524 words |
| 1911 (Feb) | Lynching | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) argues lynching stems from racial contempt and lawlessness that cheapens Black life and threatens democracy. | 366 words |
| 1911 (Feb) | Races | In The Crisis (1911), W.E.B. Du Bois argues modern science exposes race myths, urging education and civic reform to erase supposed racial hierarchies. | 1,025 words |
| 1911 (Feb) | Pink Franklin | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) lambastes racial injustice in Pink Franklin’s commuted sentence, exposing Southern law bowed to mob prejudice. | 296 words |
| 1911 (Feb) | Rampant Democracy | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) exposes how democracy masks racial and class segregation in education, mocking calls for separate schools. | 253 words |
| 1911 (Feb) | Southern Papers | 1911: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis scolds white Southern papers for mocking race issues and defending peonage, exposing labor exploitation and hypocrisy. | 346 words |
| 1911 (Feb) | Education | In The Crisis (1911), W.E.B. Du Bois exposes systemic racial injustice in education, citing stark attendance, funding, and term-length disparities. | 1,069 words |
| 1911 (Feb) | Separation | In The Crisis (1911) W.E.B. Du Bois argues race-based separation betrays democracy, forcing Black subordination in education, law, and public life. | 521 words |
| 1911 (Jan) | Allies | In 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis critiques U.S. racial injustice, showing hypocrisy when others gain rights abroad while Black citizens are denied democracy | 440 words |
| 1911 (Jan) | The Flag | In a 1911 Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns States’ rights as shielding racial terror—arguing federal action is needed to protect Black citizens. | 256 words |
| 1911 (Jan) | Discrimination | In 1911 W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns race-based segregation as dehumanizing, a caste undermining democracy, education, and civil life. | 309 words |
| 1911 (Jan) | The High School | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) recounts Black St. Louis’s fight for a new colored high school—race, civic action, and self-help vs white opposition. | 366 words |
| 1911 (Jan) | Except Servants | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) critiques racial prejudice that welcomes ‘servants’ but excludes Black people, exposing caste and labor bias. | 86 words |
| 1911 (Jan) | The Truth | W.E.B. Du Bois, in The Crisis (1911), exposes Southern lies about Black suffrage, documenting racial disfranchisement and threats to democracy. | 427 words |
| 1911 (Jan) | Jesus Christ in Baltimore | 1911: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns churches abandoning Black neighborhoods—race and class drive religious flight and moral hypocrisy. | 237 words |
| 1911 (Jan) | The Old Story | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) exposes how racial prejudice fuels false criminal accusations, lynch mobs, and unjust legal imprisonment. | 400 words |
| 1911 (Jan) | ‘Ashamed’ | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) rebukes claims that Black demands for dignity mean shame of race, arguing race pride drives the struggle for freedom. | 262 words |
| 1911 (Jan) | ‘Social Equality’ | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1911) reframes social equality, listing disenfranchisement, school denial, labor discrimination and lynching as racial injustices | 176 words |
| 1911 (Jan) | A Winter Pilgrimage | In a 1911 Crisis piece, W.E.B. Du Bois shows how local race, education and labor dynamics shape democracy—rising Black ambition meets entrenched color-line. | 753 words |
| 1911 (Jan) | Envy | In 1911 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois critiques labeling Black leaders’ disagreements as ‘envy,’ arguing race leadership debates deserve principled scrutiny. | 293 words |
| 1910 (Dec) | Advice | 1910: W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis condemns silence on lynching, exposing racial prejudice that silences Black grievance and undermines justice. | 323 words |
| 1910 (Dec) | The Inevitable | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1910) denounces racial ‘inevitability’—arguing that treating people by skin color is criminal injustice and social danger. | 281 words |
| 1910 (Dec) | The Ghetto | In The Crisis (1910) W.E.B. Du Bois denounces the ghetto and racial segregation as undemocratic, urging education and interracial association. | 380 words |
| 1910 (Dec) | Precept and Practice | In 1910 The Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns liberal hypocrisy as theatergoers applaud racial heroism yet permit restaurant discrimination. | 238 words |
| 1910 (Dec) | The Election | W.E.B. Du Bois, The Crisis (1910), critiques Black voters’ Democratic shift, urging Democrats to defend racial equality and reject reactionary, oppressive laws. | 355 words |
| 1910 (Dec) | The Races in Conference | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1910) urges the Universal Races Congress to create interracial contact, tolerance, and a true democracy of races. | 695 words |
| 1910 (Dec) | N.A.A.C.P. | W.E.B. Du Bois in The Crisis (1910) urges resistance to race prejudice through print, lectures, research and relief to defend democracy and Black rights. | 522 words |
| 1910 (Nov) | Segregation | In the 1910 Crisis, W.E.B. Du Bois condemns school segregation as anti-democratic, arguing race-based separation degrades education and shirks public duty. | 491 words |
| 1910 (Nov) | Baltimore | In The Crisis (1910), W.E.B. Du Bois condemns Baltimore’s race-based ordinances, arguing prejudice—not Black homeowners—lowers property values. | 214 words |
| 1910 (Nov) | The Crisis | In 1910 W.E.B. Du Bois inaugurates The Crisis to expose race prejudice, defend American democracy, and promote tolerance, reason, and justice. | 319 words |
| 1910 (Nov) | Agitation | In a 1910 The Crisis essay, W.E.B. Du Bois argues agitation, though painful, is necessary to expose and cure race prejudice and restore justice. | 217 words |
| 1910 (Nov) | Voting | In The Crisis (1910), W.E.B. Du Bois urges Black voters to cast independent ballots to defend democracy and resist disfranchisement. | 170 words |
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