In addition to regular “Departments”—DuBois’s editorial, “The Outer Pocket,” “Men of the Month,” and so on—this issue of The Crisis contains the first publication of Waverly T. Carmichael’s dialect poem “‘Taint No Need O’ Women Worrin’” and photographically-illustrated coverage of the congressional investigation into the Massacre of East St. Louis.....
This “Soldiers Number” of The Crisis, published just a few months before the end of first world war, contains the first publication of Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr.’s “A Sonnet to Negro Soliders.” Printed above DuBois’s editorial is a letter addressed to him by Secretary of War Newton T. Baker commending.....
This issue of The Crisis contains the first printing of Jessie Fauset’s “Oriflamme” as well as two discussions of the Great Migration, in an article by Walter F. White (who would be president of the NAACP from 1929 to 1955) and an “Opinion” by W. E. B. Du Bois. The.....
This issue of The Crisis features Jessie Fauset’s “Douce Souvenance,” as well as richly illustrated articles on “The Negro Church,” “The Baptists,” “The Negro and the Roman Catholic Church,” and “The union of White Methodism.” A review of Du Bois’s recently published Darkwater by white journalist and activist Charles Edward.....
This Easter issue of The Crisis features the first installments of Jessie Fauset’s “There Was One Time! A Story of Spring,” the tale of Anna, a young African American French teacher and just Fauset’s second short story. Fauset (1882–1961), who would shortly become the literary editor for The Crisis, was.....
This September, 1917 issue of The Crisis is focused on the Massacre of East St. Louis, in which a white mob attacked and murdered Black residents, burning their homes and businesses between July 2nd and July 5th and causing over half the city’s African American residents to flee. Reporting by.....
Third and best edition. "One of the first published accounts of the gold discovery in book form "--Streeter. The first and second editions were published in 1848, and included only a small woodcut map. Included here is a larger folding map entitled “Map of the United States Mexico &c Showing.....
Rare first edition of this account of the seizure of a statuette of Narcissus from an art shop in New Bedford, which sparked widespread debate about art and obscenity during the height of the 1870s’ “moral panic.” In 1873, Charles Hazeltine, a New Bedford art and music dealer, placed in.....
This issue of The Crisis, published the same month that New York passed a women’s suffrage amendment, includes brief articles by Carrie Chapman Catt, Anna Howard Shaw, and Mary Garrett Hay, as well as a powerful editorial by W. E. B. DuBois addressing the importance of the Black vote and.....
First edition, limited to 400 copies, this copy number 343. Inscribed by Marin on the half-title: “To Stanley Clifford write some more, John Marin.” A volume of letters written to Alfred Stieglitz between 1910 and 1930, reflecting the close relationship between the artist and the gallerist. Stieglitz was a crucial.....
The leading article of this issue of The Crisis is on “The Hope of A Negro Drama” by the important playwright Willis Richardson (1889–1977). Richardson’s The Chip Woman’s Fortune became the first serious play by an African American to be produced on Broadway in 1923, and in 1925 and 1926.....
This visually rich issue of The Crisis features a full page drawing by celebrated artist Albert Alexander Smith (1896–1940). Captioned “The Reason,” it depicts a Black man (whose suitcase identifies him as a “Southern Negro”), leaving behind the horrific scene of a lynching. A ribbon flying from the lapel of.....
The first nine issues of this continuation in magazine form of Isaiah Thomas’ newspaper The Massachusetts Spy, a format to which Thomas resorted as a means of avoiding recently instituted tariffs on paper and taxes on newspaper advertisements. In a broadside he published addressing the matter Thomas observed “The tax.....
An important volume containing the twelve issues for 1776 of this notable 18th century British periodical, featuring an early printing of the Declaration of Independence, signed in type by John Hancock and Charles Thompson, and also including several articles and maps of American interest. Among the more salient articles relating.....
This issue of The Crisis opens with W. E. B. DuBois’s famous “Close Ranks” editorial, in which he urges African Americans to “forget our special grievances and close our ranks shoulder to shoulder with our own white fellow citizens…” since “That which the German power represents today spells death to.....