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President
MOORFIELD STOREY

Vice-Presidents
ARCHIBALD H. GRIMKE
REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES
BISHIP JOHN HURST
JOHN E. MILHOLLAND
MARY WHITE OVINGTON
OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD

Executive Officers
DR. J. E. SPINGARN, Chairman of the 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
JANE ADDAMS
DR. C. E. BENTLEY
Boston
JOSEPGH PRINCE LOUD
BUTLER R. WILSON
Baltimore
BISHIP 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 KENNEDAY
CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL
ARTHUR B. SPRINGARN
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 VILARD, 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.
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Mention THE CRISIS

THE CRISIS
A RECORD OF THE DARKER RACES
PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, AT 70TH FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY  CONDUCTED BY W. WW. BURGHARDT DU BOIS; AUGUSTUS GRANVILLE DILL, BUSINESS MANAGER
Contents Copyrighted, 1917 by the Nationa Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Contents for May, 1917

PICTURES
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COVER. Posed by Miss. Anita Thompson (see page 34).
FRENCH AFRICAN TROOPS .....................................  29
FROM BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS ................................  30

ARTICLES
"THERE WAS ONE TIME." A Story. by Jessie Fauset. Parts IV. and V.   11
THE MAN WHO NEVER SOLD AN ACRE. by J. B. Woods ..................   15
A SONNET.  By G. Douglas Johnson ................................   17

DEPARTMENTS
EDITORIAL .......................................................... 7
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE ......... 18
THE OUTER POOKET ................................................... 19
THE LOOKING GLASS .................................................. 22
MEN OF THE MONTH ................................................... 31
THE HORIZON ........................................................ 34

THE CRISIS for June
The June CRISIS will contain a careful study of the Exodus from the South and a story by Mrs. Pendleton: "Aunt Caroline's Sheaves." The cover will be by Battey.

TEN CENTS A COPY; ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS TWENTY-FIVE CENTS EXTRA
RENEWALS: The date of expiration of each subscription in printed on the wrapper. When the subscription is due, a blue renewal blank in 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 week' notice is required.
MANUSCRIPTS and drawings relating to colored people are desired. They must 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.

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