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The Crisis

The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois (editor), Oswald Garrison Villard, J. Max Barber, Charles Edward Russell, Kelly Miller, William Stanley Braithwaite, and Mary Dunlop Maclean. The Crisis has been in continuous print since 1910, and it is the oldest Black-oriented magazine in the world.[1] Today, The Crisis is "a quarterly journal of civil rights, history, politics and culture and seeks to educate and challenge its readers about issues that continue to plague African Americans and other communities of color."[2]

Not to be confused with The American Crisis by Thomas Paine. For other uses, see The Crisis (disambiguation).

Editor

Lottie Joiner (Interim)

W. E. B. Du Bois,

Roy Wilkins, James W. Ivy, Henry Lee Moon, Warren Marr II, Chester Higgins Sr., Maybelle Ward, Fred Beauford, Garland Thompson, Denise Crittendon, Gentry Trotter, Paul Ruffins, Ida E. Lewis, Phil Petrie, Victoria Valentine,

Jabari Asim

Monthly

NAACP

November 1910 (1910-11)

The Crisis Publishing Company

United States

Baltimore, MD

English

www.thecrisismagazine.com

1559-1573

1910–34: W. E. B. Du Bois

1934–49:

Roy Wilkins

1949–66:

James W. Ivy

1967–74:

Henry Lee Moon

1974–80: Warren Marr II

1981–84: Chester Higgins Sr.

1984–85: Maybelle Ward

1985–92: Fred Beauford; 1991–98: Walter Morrison, Associate Editor

1992–94: Garland Thomas

1994: Denise Crittendon

1995–97: Eric Clark, Managing Editor; Tsitsi Wakhisi, Contributing Editor

1997–98: Paul Ruffins

1998–2000:

Ida E. Lewis

2001 & 2007: Phil Petrie (interim)

2001–07: Victoria Valentine

2007–17:

Jabari Asim

2017-22: Lottie Joiner

Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life

Phylon

Bontemps, Arna. The Harlem Renaissance Remembered: Essays Edited With a Memoir. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1972. Print.

Bornstein, George. "How to Read a Page: Modernism and Material Textuality." Material Modernism: The Politics of the Page. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 5–31. Print.

Driskell, David, David Levering Lewis, and Deborah Willis Ryan. Harlem Renaissance Art of Black America. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987. Print.

Farebrother, Rachel. "The Crisis (1910-34)". The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines. Eds. Peter Brooker and Andrew Thacker. Vol. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. 103–124. Print.

Ferguson, Jeffrey B. The Harlem Renaissance: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford St. Martin's, 2008. Print.

Hughes, Langston. The Big Sea. Ed. Joseph McLaren. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. Print.

Ikonné, Chidi. From Du Bois to Van Vechten: The Early New Negro Literature, 1903–1926. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1981. Print.

Kirschke, Amy Helene. Art in Crisis: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Struggle for African American Identity and Memory. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. Print.

Marks, Carole, and Diana Edkins. The Power of Pride: Stylemakers and Rulebreakers of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Crown, 1999. Print.

New Voices on the Harlem Renaissance: Essays on Race, Gender, and Literary Discourse. Eds. Australia Tarver and Paula C. Barnes. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006. Print.

Perry, Margaret. Silence to the Drums: A Survey of the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1976. Print.

Schäffer, Christina. The Brownies' Book: Inspiring Racial Price in African-American Children. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2012. Print.

. From Timbuktu to Katrina: Readings in African American History. Boston: Thomson, 2008. Print.

Taylor, Quintard

Temples for Tomorrow: Looking Back at the Harlem Renaissance. Eds. Geneviève Fabre and Michel Feith. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. Print.

Van Wienen, Mark W. Partisans and Poets: The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Print.

General resources – Books


General resources – Journal articles


Anthologies


Online resources

Official website

at Modernist Journals Project

The Crisis archives

at Google Books

The Crisis archives

public domain audiobook at LibriVox

The Crisis

The Crisis writings of W. E. B. Du Bois