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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.
Review Quotes: "Protest and Propaganda: W. E. B. Du Bois, the Crisis, and American History presents a series of essays from scholars representing a variety of disciplines that give greater insight into the content of Crisis--the official journal of the NAACP that was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois in 1910 and continues to be published today. The Crisis, whose circulation in 1919 exceeded that of the more generally known New Republic and Nation, has been one of the most important and influential reform magazines in American history. Yet, as Shawn Leigh Alexander argues in the informative introductory essay, scholars have only just begun to make deeper analyses of the diverse and revealing contents of the magazine."--Journal of Southern History