[CIVIL RIGHTS]. The Crisis. 30 issues (incomplete run). New York: The Crisis Publishing Co., Inc., 1957-1963.

1957 (4 issues, including Whole Numbers 545-548). -- 1958 (5 issues, including Whole Numbers 549-553). -- 1959 (5 issues, including Whole Numbers 564-568). -- 1960 (5 issues, including Whole Numbers 574-578). -- 1961 (2 issues, including Whole Numbers 579 and 580). -- 1962 (4 issues, including Whole Numbers 595-598). -- 1963 (5 issues, including Whole Numbers 600-603, and 605). Together, 30 issues of The Crisis. Condition fair to good. Typical edge wear and creasing, occasional spotting, toning, and soiling.

The official publication of the NAACP, founded in 1910 by W. E. B. DuBois and originally subtitled "A Record of the Darker Races," The Crisis was purposed firstly as a newspaper recording "important happenings and movements in the world which bear on the great problem of inter-racial relations, and especially those which affect the Negro-American," according to DuBois. Reviews of literature, short articles, and editorials were also to be included.

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American Historical Ephemera and Photography

[CIVIL RIGHTS]. The Crisis. 30 issues (incomplete run). New York: The Crisis Publishing Co., Inc., 1957-1963.

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