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The Crisis

The Crisis is the official publication of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It features African American commentary on current affairs. In the past, it has also featured African American literature prominently, and was one of the major magazines of the Harlem Renaissance. (There is a Wikipedia article about this serial.)

Publication History

The Crisis was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois, who edited the early volumes. It was originally subtitled "A Record of the Darker Races". No issue copyright renewals were found for this serial. The first copyright-renewed contribution is from March 1940. (More details) For a time in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was published as The New Crisis. It is still published today.

Persistent Archives of Complete Issues

• 1910-1922: The Modernist Journal Project has all issues through the end of 1922 (volumes 1-24, and the first two issues of volume 25) online.
• 1910-1929, 1936-1937, 1942: HathiTrust has volumes 1-24, 26-36, 43-44, and 49 freely readable online. Access to some volumes may be restricted outside the United States. Some other volumes here are searchable but not readable online.
• 1910-1911: Project Gutenberg has illustrated transcriptions of two issues from volume 1.
• 1911-1918, 1920-1924, 1926-1927, 1930-1946, 1948, 1950-1986, 1988-2011: Google Books has many pre-2012 issues fully readable online. Access may be restricted outside the United States.
• 1912-1913: The Internet Archive has volumes 5 and 6 online.
• 1913-1914: The Internet Archive has volumes 7 and 8 online.
• 1914-1915: The Internet Archive has volumes 9 and 10 online.
• 1921-1922: The Internet Archive has volumes 23 and 24 online.
• 1922-1923: The Internet Archive has volumes 25 and 26 online.
• 1926: The Internet Archive has volume 32, covering May through October 1926, scanned from microfilm.
• 1926-1927: The Internet Archive has volume 33, covering November 1926 through February 1927, scanned from microfilm.
• 1927: The Internet Archive has volume 34, covering March through December 1927, scanned from microfilm.
• 1928: The Internet Archive has volume 35, scanned from microfilm.
• 1929: The Internet Archive has volume 36, scanned from microfilm.
• 1930: The Internet Archive has volume 37, scanned from microfilm.
• 1931: The Internet Archive has volume 38, scanned from microfilm.
• 1932: The Internet Archive has volume 39, scanned from microfilm.
• 1933: The Internet Archive has volume 40, scanned from microfilm.
• 1934: The Internet Archive has volume 41, scanned from microfilm.
• 1935: The Internet Archive has volume 42, scanned from microfilm.
• 1936: The Internet Archive has volume 43, scanned from microfilm.
• 1937: The Internet Archive has volume 44, scanned from microfilm.
• 1938: The Internet Archive has volume 45, scanned from microfilm.
• 1939: The Internet Archive has volume 46, scanned from microfilm.
• 1941: The Internet Archive has volume 48 scanned from microfilm.
• 1942: The Internet Archive has volume 49, scanned from microfilm.
• 1943: The Internet Archive has volume 50, scanned from microfilm.
• 1944: The Internet Archive has volume 51, scanned from microfilm.
• 1945: The Internet Archive has volume 52, scanned from microfilm.
• 1946: The Internet Archive has volume 53, scanned from microfilm.
• 1947: The Internet Archive has volume 54, scanned from microfilm.
• 1948: The Internet Archive has volume 55, scanned from microfilm.
• 1949: The Internet Archive has volume 56, scanned from microfilm.
• 1950: The Internet Archive has volume 57, scanned from microfilm.
• 1951: The Internet Archive has volume 58, scanned from microfilm.
• 1952: The Internet Archive has volume 59, scanned from microfilm.
• 1954: The Internet Archive has volume 61, scanned from microfilm.
• 1955: The Internet Archive has volume 62, scanned from microfilm.
• 1956: The Internet Archive has volume 63, scanned from microfilm.
• 1957: The Internet Archive has volume 64, scanned from microfilm.
• 1960: The Internet Archive has volume 67, scanned from microfilm.
• 1961: The Internet Archive has volume 68, scanned from microfilm.

Official Site / Current Material

• The Crisis Magazine website has information on the magazine, tables of contents and selected items from recent issues, and selected articles from the magazine's early years.

Related Resources

• Crisis is also the name of a lay Catholic publication that published from 1982-2007, which was otherwise unrelated to this magazine.

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