Harlem Renaissance #1383

Caption from poster__       Harlem Renaissance   The National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) was established in February, 1909. The NAACP started its own magazine, Crisis in November, 1910. It was named after a popular poem, The Present Crisis by James Russell Lowell. The  magazine was edited by William Du Bois and the first edition had  sixteen page magazine and cost 10 cents a copy.  In his first  editorial William Du Bois said that Crisis would  "be first and fore- most a newspaper", and secondly, it would serve as a review of opinion and literature. Finally it would stand "for the rights of men, irrespective of color or race, for the highest ideals of American  democracy, and for reasonable but earnest and persistent attempts to gain these rights and realize these ideals." Early contributors to early issues included Oswald Garrison Villard, Jane Addams, Adela Hunt Logan, Mary Church Terrell, Ida Wells and Charles Edward  Russell. The magazine soo