The Crisis
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The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois, Oswald Garrison Villard, J. Max Barber, Charles Edward Russe
The Crisis, Vol. 19, No. 1, November 1919
First issue, November 1910
A 1911 copy of The Crisis depicting a copy of the relief of Nebmaatre I on Meroe pyramid 17
The August 1920 cover is a typical example of the annual education number under Du Bois's editorship.
Langston Hughes
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James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. An early innovator of jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of th
The Crisis
…tenure that literature abounded. Though not nearly as well-known today as Du Bois, Fauset's literary contributions were equal in importance. The poet Langston Hughes described Fauset as one of the "midwives of the Harlem Renaissance". Hughes wrote in his 1940 autobiography The Big Sea that the parties at Fauset's…
Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1942
Hughes in 1902
Hughes in the Central High School yearbook, 1920
Hughes c. 1925