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August, 1936              229

THE CRISIS
Founded 1910
REG. U. S. PAT. OFF.
A Record of the Darker Races
ROY WILKINS, Editor
ADVISORY BOARD
J.E. Spingarn
Dr. Louis T. Wright
James Weldon Johnson
Lewis Gannett
Walter White
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Volume 43, No. 8    Whole No. 308
CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1936

COVER  Page                        
Lt B. O. Davis, Jr., West Point Graduate 

THE NEGRO AS A CITIZEN 
By Harold I. Ickes...  230

THE GOING IS ROUGH BUT THEY MAKE IT 
By G. James Fleming... 232

THE AMERICAN NEGRO IN COLLEGE 1935-36 
Information, Photographs, and Statistics... 234

YOUTH EXHIBITS A NEW SPIRIT 
By Lyonel Florant... 237

NO.1 GRADUATE OF THE NATION 
A short sketch of Lt. B.O. Davis, Jr... 239

EDITORIALS... 241

FROM THE PRESS OF THE NATION... 243

THE 26th YEAR OF THE N.A.A.C.P.
By Louis T. Wright...  244

ALONG THE N.A.A.C.P. BATTLEFRONT 
In which is reviewed the 27th Annual Conference in Baltimore... 246    
        
The Crisis was founded in 1910.  It is published monthly at 69 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y., By Crisis Publishing Company, Inc., and is the official organ of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.  The subscription price is $1.50 a year or 15c a copy.  Foreign subscriptions $1.75.  The date of expiration of each subscription is printed on the wrapper.  When the subscription is due a blue renewal blank is enclosed.  The address of a subscriber may be changed as often as desired, but both the old and new address must be given and two weeks' notice is necessary.  Manuscripts and drawings relating to colored people are desired.  They must be accompanied by return postage, and while THE CRISIS uses every care it assumes no responsibility for their safety in transit.  Entered as second class matter November 2, 1910, at the post office at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879, and additional second class entry at Albany N. Y.
The contents of THE CRISIS are copyrighted.
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NEXT MONTH

The September number will have the article, "Slave Struggles for Freedom," by Stanley Rappeport, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins university. It should be required reading for every student, white and colored, but especially for the colored.
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Also an important article from Soviet Russia, written especially for THE CRISIS by Chatwood Hall, a colored Minnesota man, who has been in the Soviet Union for four years.  The article deals with the much-talked-about new Constitution of the Soviets.  Although the piece will probably make Dr. Garnet Wilkinson and the District of Columbia school board more convinced that ever that THE CRISIS should be barred from the schools of the nation's capital, we can't resist publishing it–and we don't want to resist very much anyway.
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Also in September will be a brief piece on the failure at Geneva (in the Ethiopian situation) by David H. Bradford; a story by David H. Kobler; and some notes on the study of Negro history in the New Orleans schools by George Longe.
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS

The Hon. Harold L. Ickes is Secretary of the Interior and administrator of the Public Works Administration.  Many years ago, for a brief period, he was president of the Chicago branch of the N.A.A.C.P.  He is the chief spokesman of the New Deal government to Negro Americans.
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G. James Fleming is a young native of the Virgin Islands who has made a name for himself as a journalist and orator.  He is a graduate of Hampton Institute and the University of Wisconsin.  At the latter institution he majored in journalism, writing for his thesis one of the best surveys of the Negro press now available.  He also won the highest oratory prize on his campus, after which the Wisconsin chapter of a national forensic fraternity created a furore in the college world by proposing his name for membership and carrying on a fight in the national convention against the clause in the constitution barring Negroes.  Mr. Fleming at present is city editor of the New York Amsterdam News.
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Lyonel Florant is a student at Howard university, Washington, D. C., and is active in several national student movements.
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Dr. Louis T. Wright, of New York, is chairman of the board of directors of the N.A.A.C.P.  He is a surgeon of note, a specialist in skull fractures, a member of the medical board and chief of the surgical staff at Harlem hospital, and the only Negro fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
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James H. Robinson, who reviews the youth section of the Baltimore conference of the N.A.A.C.P., is a student at Union Theological seminary in New York.
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