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.....
This issue of The Crisis includes the article “The Negro as Conscience of America,” by teacher and producer Annetta G. Jefferson; Arthur Spingarn’s twenty-fifth annual review of “Books by Negro Authors,” which in 1960 included No Longer At Ease by Chinua Achebe; E. R. Braithwait’s To Sir, With Love (later.....
Among the highlights in this issue of The Crisis are a retrospective of the Civil Rights movement during 1963 by movement leader and NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins and a “résumé” of “Books By Negro Authors in 1963,” listing James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, Gwendolyn Brooks’s Selected Poems, W......
This issue of The Crisis includes two in-depth articles: “Why Nixon Lost the Negro Vote,” by Gloster B. Current, and the “Second Battle of New Orleans”—offering “A sketch of the four little girls involved in the New Orleans integration fight”—by Clarence A. Laws, NAACP field secretary. Laws’ article describes the.....
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 cover of this issue of The Crisis features a group portrait—a woman and five young children holding NAACP balloons—taken at the “Fashion for Freedom Show given by the Springfield, Massachusetts, branch.” The feature article, authored by freedom rider Jim Peck, is amply illustrated and opens with a shot of.....