Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 270

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
DU BOIS, W. E. B. Crisis, a Record of the Darker Races A broken run of Crisis Magazine, February, 1919; December 1920; January, March, April, May, June, August and September, 1921. All except two are in very good condition. Total of 9 issues. should be seen. New York, 1919-1921

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a group of scarce early issues of the official organ of the naacp. The NAACP was founded in 1910 by W. E. B. Du Bois, and a group of white and black activists and reformers to confront the growing number of lynchings in America as well as in reaction to the terrible Springfield Illinois riot of 1908.