My Everyday Problems
“My Everyday Problems,” Woman’s Home Companion, vol. 50, no. 7 (July 1923), 25–26; 29. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.319510028031159&view=1up&seq=35. In the February issue we asked the home women of America who felt […]
Debating Darwinism: Evolution and Mr. Bryan
Harry Emerson Fosdick, “Evolution and Mr. Bryan,” Popular Religion Leaflets, American Institute of Sacred Literature (1922). Available at https://archive.org/details/evolutionmrbryan00fosd/page/n5/mode/2up. The editor of The Times1 has asked me to reply to […]
Debating Darwinism: God and Evolution
William Jennings Bryan, “God and Evolution: Charge That American Teachers of Darwinism ‘Make the Bible a Scrap of Paper,’” New York Times (February 26, 1922) 1; 11. Available at http://moses.law.umn.edu/darrow2/trials_details.php?id=7#:~:text=Newspapers,Answer%20to%20Bryan%20on%20Evolution. […]
Navigating the North
“Some Don’ts,” Chicago Defender, May 17, 1919. Available at: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai3/migrations/text6/chicagodefender1919.pdf. —————SOME DON’TS————— . . . A fierce agitation is being waged by certain classes of citizens against immigration of southern […]
Returning Soldiers
We are returning from war! THE CRISIS and tens of thousands of black men were drafted into a great struggle.1 For bleeding France and what she means and has meant […]
Close Ranks
W. E. B. Du Bois, “Close Ranks,” The Crisis, 16 (July 1918), 111. Available at https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:511336/. This is the crisis of the world. For all the long years to come […]
Henry Ford’s Five-Day Week
Source: “Henry Ford’s Five-Day Week,” Literary Digest (April 29, 1922), 8. Available at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015028101460&view=1up&seq=406. Will Henry Ford’s five-day week, with the minimum basic day-wage of $6 unchanged, benefit the Ford […]
Letter from Zora Neale Hurston to the Orlando Sentinel (1955): Race Mixing
Hurston, Zora Neale. “Court Order Can’t Make Races Mix.” In Zora Neale Hurston: Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings, edited by Cheryl A. Wall, 956-958. New York: The Library of America, […]
New York Evening Post Article Regarding American Neutrality
The proceedings of the present Congress, the debates, the votes and the acts, are calculated to excite nothing but surprise, indignation or ridicule. On the question of foreign relations, I […]
French Outrages Against Our Ships and Sailors
Fellow Citizens, for more than two years has your flag been struck on the ocean whenever it has been met with by the flag of France; your vessels have been […]