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Supreme Court of the United States: Oct.
Term. Charles H. Buchanan, Plaintiff in Error, vs. William Warley
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Crisis Magazine, Christmas issue, 1917. Pages 69 through 73; small 4to, original wrappers.
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Buchanan vs. Warley, 245, U.S. 60, was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court
addressed civil government-instituted racial segregation in residential areas. The Louisville, Kentucky
city ordinance forbade colored persons from occupying houses as residences, or places of abode or public
assembly, on blocks where the majority of the houses are occupied by white persons for those purposes.
The Court held that a Louisville, Kentucky, city ordinance prohibiting the sale of real such property to
blacks violated the Fourteenth Amendment, which protected freedom of contract, reversing the ruling of
the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Unlike prior state court rulings that had overturned racial zoning
ordinances on takings clause grounds due to those ordinances’ failures to grandfather land owned prior
to enactment, the Court in Buchanan ruled that the motive for the Louisville ordinance, race, was an
insufficient purpose to make the prohibition constitutional.
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Nine early issues of Crisis Magazine:
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good condition, a few small flaws; some slight soiling.
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These early issues, barely 50 years after Emancipation, carry articles on the
progress of the race, monthly reports from the NAACP, the ever-present issue of lynching and its reme-
dies, plus original art, poetry, and fiction. The April 1913 issue features “Easter Emancipation,” an
epic poem by W.E.B. Du Bois not printed elsewhere, until the Collected Papers. Du Bois contributed
a great deal of the content in these early issues. Contributing editors included Max Barber, Oswald
Garrison Villard, Kelly Miller, Charles Edward Russell, and W.S. Braithwaite.
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March, May,
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The years 1917 and 1918 were very important to African Americans. In addition to the war in
Europe, where tens of thousands of African American men were fighting for a country which still
refused them the rights of full citizenship, a significant migration out of the rural South into the
Northeast and Midwest was beginning to change the face of America forever. These early issues of
Crisis not only reported the news, they also printed the poetry and fiction of the writers of the nascent
Harlem Renaissance: Georgia Douglas Johnson, Angelina Grimke, Jessie Faucet, and James Weldon
Johnson to name just a few. These nearly century old magazines are in remarkably good condition.
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Crisis Magazine, a Record of the Darker Races.
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The year 1934 was an important one for people of color. In June, Alabama’s Supreme Court upheld
the lower court’s decision finding the Scottsboro Boys Heywood Patterson and Clarence Norris guilty
of rape, and sentencing them to death. This case, with all of its ramifications would continue to be
reported in the pages of Crisis for years to come. In Europe, Nazi Germany targeted the Jewish peo-
ple, in what was the beginning of the Holocaust. Articles include “Hitler, Jews and Negroes,”
“Recalling 1906,” “Langston Hughes on Russia,” “Wage Differential,” by Robert Weaver, and
“Norman Thomas Discusses—-Can American go Fascist?” America was still well into the Great
Depression, and if times were bad for white Americans, they were infinitely worse for blacks. Labor
issues, segregation and the wide gulf in opportunity are all addressed in these issues of Crisis, the offi-
cial organ of the NAACP.