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The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois (editor), Oswald Garrison Villard , J. Max Barber , Charles Edward Russell , Kelly Miller , William Stanley Braithwaite , and Mary Dunlop Maclean .
Governor Brough asked the United States Postal Service to prohibit mailings of the Chicago Defender and The Crisis to Arkansas, and others tried to get an injunction against distribution of the Defender at the local level. The NAACP provided legal defense of the black men convicted by the state for the riot and carried the case to the U.S ...
The first exhibition was an NAACP exhibition entitled An Art Commentary on Lynching and held at the Arthur U. Newton Galleries, [2] [3] from February 15 through March 2. [4] It was covered by the NAACP's magazine, The Crisis, which in particular observed the additional publicity that accrued because of a last minute change of venue, a mere four days before the exhibition was due to open. [2]
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) [a] is an American civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz.
The Florida State University NAACP chapter is calling for the school to investigate a student who made a social media post using “offensive” and “dehumanizing” language to describe his ...
Ahead of the water crisis last summer, people in Jackson had been advised to boil water before consuming it because health officials obtained samples that showed the water could be dangerous to ...
The NAACP distributed the report to hundreds of newspapers and politicians, a campaign that led to wide condemnation of the lynching. Many white observers were disturbed by photos of the southerners who celebrated the lynching. [48] The Crisis included more images of lynchings in subsequent issues. [79]
The NAACP says the voter ID requirement, along with two other voting-related provisions, violate the U.S. Constitution and the Voting […] The post 5 years after a federal lawsuit by NAACP, North ...