Protest and Propaganda W. E. B. du Bois, the CRISIS, and American History |
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| Editor:
| Kirschke, Amy Helene
Sinitiere, Phillip Luke |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8262-2005-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2014 |
| Publisher: | University of Missouri Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $50.00 |
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In looking back on his editorship of the Crisis magazine, W. E. B. Du Bois said, "We condensed more news about Negroes and their problems in a month than most colored papers before this had published in a year." Since its founding by Du Bois in 1910, the Crisis has been the primary published voice of the NAACP. Born in an age of Jim Crow racism, often strapped for funds, the magazine struggled and...
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In looking back on his editorship of the Crisis magazine, W. E. B. Du Bois said, "We condensed more news about Negroes and their problems in a month than most colored papers before this had published in a year." Since its founding by Du Bois in 1910, the Crisis has been the primary published voice of the NAACP. Born in an age of Jim Crow racism, often strapped for funds, the magazine struggled and endured, all the while providing a forum for people of color to document their inherent dignity and proclaim their definitive worth as human beings.The contributorsshow how the essays, columns, and visuals published in the Crisis changed conversations, perceptions, and even laws in the United States, thereby calling a fractured nation to more fully live up to its democratic creed.