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The Crisis : A Record of the Darker Races. Vol. 68, No. 9 - Whole Number 587.
New York: NAACP / The Crisis Publishing Company, Inc., November 1961. Sm 8vo (7.75” x 5.375”), illustrated wrappers. 531–590 pp., b&w illus. throughout. Address label of “Eldred Day” in Lawrence, Kansas, affixed at front wrapper. CONDITION: Very good-, small chip at right edge of front wrapper, slight dampstaining and rippling to wrappers. The cover of this issue of The Crisis features Mary Villa, a Hunter High School graduate who “received three college scholarships.” Among the articles within are a piece on the September 22nd, 1961 Interstate Commerce Commission ruling for desegregation (prompted by “A series of NAACP-sponsored law suits and complaints”) and including the full language of the ruling; a report on “the aims and some of the recent activities” of the Women’s Civic Guild of Washington, D.C.; and a short piece on the nomination of Thurgood Marshall to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Regular features include “Along the N.A.A.C.P. Battlefront,” updates on chapter and branch activities, “College and School News,” and more. 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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