The Crisis

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The Crisis was the influential magazine of the NAACP, founded and edited by W.E.B. Du Bois, that served as a leading voice for African American civil rights and culture in the early 20th century.

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instanceOf African American magazine
civil rights periodical
magazine
affiliation Niagara Movement legacy
countryOfPublication United States of America
surface form: United States
editor W. E. B. Du Bois
founder W. E. B. Du Bois
hasSection book reviews
editorials
essays
fiction
news reports
photographs
poetry
statistical reports
inception 1910
language English
mainSubject African American art
African American civil rights
African American culture
African American history
African American literature
African American politics
Harlem Renaissance
Jim Crow laws
World War I and African American soldiers
education for African Americans
lynching and racial violence
racial equality
segregation
voting rights
mediaType print
notableContributor Claude McKay
Countee Cullen
Georgia Douglas Johnson
Langston Hughes
Mary White Ovington
Walter White (fictional character)
surface form: Walter White
notableEditor James Weldon Johnson
Jessie Redmon Fauset
Roy Wilkins
W. E. B. Du Bois
politicalAlignment African American suffrage
anti-lynching movement
civil rights advocacy
publicationFrequency monthly
publisher NAACP
NAACP
surface form: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
roleInSociety organ of the NAACP
platform for African American intellectuals
vehicle for anti-lynching campaigns
voice for early 20th-century African American civil rights
targetAudience Black Americans
surface form: African Americans

civil rights activists

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