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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. 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 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 Page 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. ALLIED PRINTING TRADES UNION LABEL COUNCIL 2[[5]] NEW YORK CITY