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 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.....