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The Crisis

The Crisis is the official publication of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It features African American commentary on current affairs. In the past, it has also featured African American literature prominently, and was one of the major magazines of the Harlem Renaissance.

Publication History

The Crisis was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois, who edited the early volumes. It was originally subtitled "A Record of the Darker Races". No issue copyright renewals appear to exist for this serial; the earliest article copyright renewal I have found is for a 1940 article by Langston Hughes. For a time in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was published as The New Crisis. It is still published today.

Persistent Archives of Complete Issues

• 1910-1922: The Modernist Journal Project has all issues through the end of 1922 (volumes 1-24, and the first two issues of volume 25) online.
• 1922-1923: The Internet Archive has volumes 25 and 26 online.
• 1911-2009: Google Books has most pre-2010 issues fully readable online.

Official Site / Current Material

• The Crisis Magazine website has information on the magazine, tables of contents and selected items from recent issues, and selected articles from the magazine's early years.

Related Resources

• Crisis is also the name of a lay Catholic publication that published from 1982-2007, which was otherwise unrelated to this magazine.

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