W.E.B. Du Bois Launches The Crisis, NAACP's Monthly Magazine

W.E.B. Du Bois launched The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races as the official magazine of the NAACP in November 1910. Starting with 1,000 copies, circulation grew to 100,000 by 1918 — an extraordinary reach for a Black publication. The magazine documented lynchings, published investigative reports on racial violence, ran profiles of Black achievement, published poetry and fiction, and provided a national information network for the Black community. Copies were passed hand to hand throughout the South.