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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
JANE ADDAMS
DR. C. E. BENTLEY

Boston
JOSEPH PRINCE LOUD
BUTTLER 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 RUSSEL
ARTHUR B. SPINGARN
CHARLES H. STUDIN
DR. JOHN G. UNDERHILL
LILLIAN D. WALD
WILLIAM ENGLISH WALLING

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SUFFRAGE NUMBER - Edition 45,000

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. BURGHARDT DU BOIS; AUGUSTUS GRANVILLE DILL, BUSINESS MANAGER

Contents Copyrighted, 1917, by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Contents for November, 1917


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PICTURES
| COVER. A STUDY FROM LIFE. By Frank Walts |   |
| TO AMERICA. Drawn by Laura Wheeler | 13 |
| MEN OF MONTH | 23 |
| SHADOWS OF LIGHT. With Portraits of Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook, The Empress Taitou and the Cadets of Officer´ Training Camp No. 17 | 24-27 |

ARTICLES
| TO AMERICA. A POEM. By James Weldon Johnson | 13 |
| HOUSTON. AN N. A. A. C. P. INVESTIGATION. By Martha Gruening | 14 |
| VOTES FOR ALL. A SYMPOSIUM. By Anna Howard Shaw, Carrie Chapman Catt and Mary Garrett Hay | 19 |

DEPARTMENTS
| EDITORIAL | 7 |
| MEN OF THE MONTH | 22 |
| THE LOOKING GLASS | 28 |
| THE HORIZON | 36 |

THE CHRISTMAS CRISIS

We expect this to be the greatest of a remarkable series of Christmas numbers. This cover is being done in colors by a gifted artist. The story is striking. The recent expansion of the colored Y.M.C.A. will be told and Jessie Fauset and Laura Wheeler will colaborate [[collaborate]].  Ready November 20 and liable to be sold out before December 1. Order early.

Look for THE CRISIS Calendar December 1

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RENEWALS: The date of expiration in printed on the wrapper. When the subscription is due, a blue renewal blank is enclosed.
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