W. E. B. Du Bois Begins Editing NAACP’s “The Crisis”
W. E. B.Du Bois was one of the greatest African-Americans intellectuals in the twentieth century. Among his important roles was editor of the NAACP’s magazine The Crisis from this day until 1934. The first issue was dated November 1910 (but was not necessarily issued on November 1st).
Under his editorship, circulation in the 1920s reached 100,000 and became a major voice for civil rights.
His important books included The Souls of Black Folk (1903) and Black Reconstruction (1935).
Du Bois died on August 27, 1963, in Accra, Ghana, as an exile from his country, one day before the great March on Washington, on August 28, 1963.
Read about Du Bois: http://www.naacp.org/pages/naacp-history-w.e.b.-dubois
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Learn more at a timeline of The Crisis: http://www.thecrisismagazine.com/timeline.html
Learn more: David Levering Lewis, W. E. B. Du Bois (1993)
Read: Gilbert Jones, Freedom’s Sword: The NAACP and the Struggle Against Racism in America, 1909–1969 (2012)
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