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President MOORFIELD STOREY Vice-Presidents ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKE REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES BISHOP JOHN HURST JOHN E. MILHOLLAND MARY WHITE OVINGTON OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD Executive Officers DR. J. E. SPINGARN, Chairman of Board OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, Treasurer Dr. W. E. B. DU BOIS, Director of Publications and Research ROY NASH, Secretary JAMES WELDON JOHNSON, Field Secretary NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE DIRECTORS Chicago JAMES ADDAMS DR. C. E. BENTLEY Boston JOSEPH PRINCE LOUD BUTLER R. WILSON Baltimore BISHOP JOHN HURST DR. F. N. CARDOZO Springfield, Mass. REV. G. R. WALLER Washington PROF. GEO. WILLIAM COOK Brooklyn DR. V. MORTON JONES DR. O.M. WALLER New Haven GEORGE W. CRAWFORD Philadelphia DR. WILLIAM A. SINCLAIR New York REV. HUTCHINS C. BISHOP MRS. FLORENCE KELLEY PAUL KENNADAY CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL ARTHUR B. SPINGARN CHARLES H. STUDIN DR. JOHN G. UNDERHILL LILLIAN D. WALD WILLIAM ENGLISH WALLING The fight for 1917 is to be against DISFRANCHISEMENT and JIM CROW CARS. If this is your fight, join and support us. Date ………………………, 1917. MEMBERSHIP BLANK The Crisis is sent without further charge to members paying two dollars or more. OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD, Treasurer, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York SIR: I desire to become a member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and to receive The Crisis. In payment of my dues for one year, I enclose............dollars. Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $. . . . . . . City and State. . . . . . . . . . . . MENTION THE CRISIS THE CRISIS A RECORD OF THE DARKER RACES PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, AT 70 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. CONDUCTED BY W.E. BUEGHARDT DU BOIS, AUGUSTUS GRANVILLE DILL, BUSINESS MANAGER. Contents Copyrighted, 1917, by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Contents for March, 1719 PICTURES COVER DESIGN. By Louise Latimer | | Page | | THE NEW DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL, WASHINGTON, D.C. | | | Photograph by Scurlock | 221 | | MEN OF THE MONTH | 228 | | SHADOWS OF LIGHT | 230-232 | | CARTOON. By E.A. Harleston | 247 | ARTICLES | O SEA, THAT KNOWEST THY STRENGTH, A Poem | | | By Mary Effie Lee | 219 | | THE NEW DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL, WASHINGTON, D.C. | | | By J.C. Wright | 220 | | TO THE DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL. A Sonnet. By Angelina W. Grimke | 222 | | HEROES OF DEATH | 223 | | THE HEGIRA. A Poem, By G. Douglas Johnson | 225 | DEPARTMENTS | EDITORIAL | 215 | | THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE | 226 | | MEN OF THE MONTH | 237 | | THE LOOKING GLASS | 233 | | THE HORIZON | 240 | THE APRIL CRISIS-EASTER NUMBER A beautiful cover by a well-known artist. One of the strongest stories which we have ever published. A poem by Otto Bohanan. Some unusual pictures. And Editorials-what more need we say? TEN CENTS A COPY; ONE DOLLAR A YEAR FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS TWENTY-FIVE CENTS EXTRA RENEWALS: The date of expiration of each subscription is printed on the wrapper. When the subscription is due, a blue renewal blank is enclosed. CHANGE OF ADDRESS: The address of a subscriber can be changed as often as desired. In ordering a change of address, both the old and the new address must be given. Two weeks' notice is required. MANUSCRIPTS and drawings relating to colored people are desired. They much be accompanied by return postage. If found unavailable they will be returned. Entered as Second-class Matter in the Post Office at New York, N.Y. [[image]]
