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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 This is the one National Organization fighting to abolish race prejudice and discrimination in America. We need greater numbers to give us greater power. We now have more than 8,500 active members. Will you now help to push the membership over the 10,000 mark? Fill in the following blank today. Date [[blank line]],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 [[blank line]] dollars. Name [[blank line]] Street [[blank line]] City and State [[blank line]]. $ [[blank line]] Mention THE CRISIS 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 | [[contents]] | Page | 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 TEN CENTS A COPY; ONE DOLLAR A YEAR FOREIGN SUBSCRIPTIONS TWENTY-FIVE CENTS EXTRA RENEWALS: The date of expiration in 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 must be accompanied by return postage. If found unavailable they will be returned. Entered as second class matter November 2, 1910, at the post office at New York, New York, under the Act of March 8, 1879 [[image - union logo]]