Name: The Crisis A Record of the Darker Races

Barcode: 58522

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Alternative Title: Record of the Darker Races

Brief Description: The soldiers number of The Crisis was published a few months before the end of the first world war. It was edited by W.E.B. DuBois. Featured are a series of photographs showing soldiers and military life. Included is an obituary for Major James E. Walker who died of tuberculosis while guarding the national Capital. The cover features an African-American soldier standing at attention with a rifle is from a poster by Robert Edmund Jones for the Circle for Negro War Relief. Also included are ads for African-American institutions and businesses.

Publishing Location: New York

Publisher: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People,

Date Published: Jun 1918

Language: English

Dimensions: 24 x 17 cm

LC Call Number: E185.63 1918 N3

OCLC: 1395562187