The Crisis
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===Volume 11, Number 5 - March, 1916=== | ===Volume 11, Number 5 - March, 1916=== | ||
This particular issue is one that contained the most occurrences of the word "war." It has many different anecdotes that describe how the war effected people all over the world. One specific story that was printed was one of a girl in Paris, France who had watched many black soldiers march down their streets. She explained, "I had but one fear for them, and that was that they might become demoralized by the example set by some of our highly civilized friends..." Here she is sharing that she is afraid of how African-American soldiers will become effected by the actions of prejudice white people of this time, or how their lives will change after the war. | This particular issue is one that contained the most occurrences of the word "war." It has many different anecdotes that describe how the war effected people all over the world. One specific story that was printed was one of a girl in Paris, France who had watched many black soldiers march down their streets. She explained, "I had but one fear for them, and that was that they might become demoralized by the example set by some of our highly civilized friends..." Here she is sharing that she is afraid of how African-American soldiers will become effected by the actions of prejudice white people of this time, or how their lives will change after the war. | ||
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| + | ===Volume 16, Number 2 - June, 1918=== | ||
| + | One particular article in this issue talks about how uneducated some African American soldiers were when they were called in to war. Those who were in Georgia thought that the war was only miles away from Atlanta, but didn't even know that Atlanta was the capital of Georgia. Not only this, but they did not know any countries that the war was taking place in, or even what the war was about. This ties in to how African Americans dealt with the war and what their expectations were. | ||
===Volume 17, Number 2 - December, 1918=== | ===Volume 17, Number 2 - December, 1918=== | ||
