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July 1912 issue of The Crisis Magazine.The cover is printed in red with a photographic portrait of a woman at center. The title across the top reads [THE CRISIS] followed by an illustration of a winged Egyptian figure and [A RECORD OF THE DARKER RACES]. Beneath this is printed [Volume Four July, 1912 Number Three]. Along the bottom is [ONE DOLLAR A YEAR] and [TEN CENTS A COPY]. There are two (2) staples on the spine. The back cover features advertisements for a hotel in Cape May, New Jersey and ["HALF A MAN" The Status of the Negro in New York].The interior contents include the sections: [ALONG THE COLOR LINE / MEN OF THE MONTH / OPINION / NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE / EDITORIAL / THE YEAR IN COLORED COLLEGES / THE MONTESSORI METHOD By Jessie Fauset / THE FAITHS OF THE TEACHERS / THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN / GENERAL EVARISTO ESTENOZ By Arthur A. Schomburg / PROTECTION / WOMEN'S CLUBS A Social Center at Hampton / HISTORIC DAYS IN JULY / THE BURDEN / "I MET A LITTLE BLUE-EYED GIRL" Poem by Bertha Johnson / LETTER BOX]. In addition are advertisements, announcements, news stories, photographs and illustrations. Sub-sections in "Along the Color Line" include Education, Political, The Church, Meetings, Social Uplift, Economics, Personal, The Ghetto, Courts, Crime, and Music and Art. The feature on colleges includes photograph portraits of graduates. "The Burden" section has a running count of "Colored Men Lynched Without Trial" and a...
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Smithsonian InstitutionKeywords
- Advertising
- African American
- African Americans
- Anti Lynching Movement
- Associations And Institutions
- Business
- Civil Rights
- Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
- Education
- Estenoz Corominas, Evaristo
- Fauset, Jessie Redmon
- Hbc Us (Historically Black Colleges And Universities)
- Hershaw, Lafayette M
- Johnston, Bertha
- Literature
- Lynching
- Mass Media
- National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
- Poetry
- Prisons
- Race Relations
- Schomburg, Arturo Alfonso
- Social Life And Customs
- Social Reform
- Society
- The Crisis
- U.S. History, 1865 1921
- Universities
- Women