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The Crisis : A Record of the Darker Races. Vol. 68, No. 3 - Whole Number 581.
New York: NAACP / The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc., March 1961. Sm 8vo (7.625” x 5.25”), illustrated wrappers. 131–190 pp., b&w illus. throughout. CONDITION: Very good-, light soiling to wrappers with a small dampstain and pink discoloration to front wrapper and small chip at left margin of rear wrapper. The cover of this issue of The Crisis shows two young Spelman College students, Joan Andrews and Marilyn Pryce, who “have been chosen…to receive foreign study-travel awards…for one year and two summers.” The feature article, “Which Way Out…?” by NAACP branches director Gloster B. Current covers “the basic facts about the difficult situation in Haywood and Fayette counties, Tennessee” in which Black sharecroppers were evicted by their white landlords in the midst of early activist efforts to register African American voters. Tent settlements were set up on the lands of Black farmers, in which many families of color lived from 1959 into 1963. The article is illustrated with shots of youngsters and families in the “Tent City.” Other pieces in the issue include “Another Look at Negro Politics,” a book review by John A. Morsell; a “Memo from the desk of the Executive Secretary” of the NAACP, Roy Wilkinson; and regular updates from “Along the N.A.A.C.P. Battlefront,” chapters and branches, “College and School News,” and so on. The Crisis, now the longest-running Black-oriented publication in the world, was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois as the official publication of the NAACP. Its name was adapted from James Russell Lowell’s Civil War poem The Present Crisis, and, though it was primarily conceived to address political and social news, it also became an important literary forum. Especially during the literary editorship of Jessie Redmon Fauset between 1918 and 1926, The Crisis served as a literary incubator for the Harlem Renaissance, publishing early work by Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, and others. As “A mirror for and to black America,” The Crisis spurred Black art, education, and civil rights, and “inspired a black intelligentsia” (Holt). REFERENCES: Holt, Thomas C. “Du Bois, W. E. B.,” African American National Biography, ed. Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (New York: Oxford UP, 2008), online at Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research.
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