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NAACP.
Crisis Magazine, a Record of the Darker Races.
20 issues covering
WWII, from November, 1939 through May, 1945. Large 4to, original wrappers; with the
exception of November, 1942, all are fresh and virtually “as new.”
New York, 1939-1945
[1,500/2,500]
Includes: November 1939, July, 1940, October, 1940, December, 1940, May, 1941, February
1942, April, 1942, May, 1942, September, 1942, November, 1942, March, 1943, May, 1943,
June, 1943, September, 1943, January, 1944, April, 1944, September, 1944, and April, 1945.
While a broken run, this group of Crisis Magazines provides an almost month by month description of
the progress of WWII, and the African American community’s participation in it. A number of issues
are devoted to the Tuskegee Airmen and to black participation, male and female, in the armed services.
In addition to much war news, the struggle for civil rights, unions, education and the ever-present
inequality continue to fill the pages. But not all the news is war news or negative; articles by or about
people like Fats Waller, Philadelphia attorney Raymond Pace Alexander, composer William Grant
Still or women in defense work more than balance out the grim news from Europe and the Pacific.
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Wrong Side of the Tracks
(supplied title). Series of 21 8 x 10 gelatin silver
print photographs of black families homes in the rural South.
Np, circa 1940’s—1950
[600/900]
These photographs need no captions to impart the terrible conditions for both adults and children. The
latter are seen playing right be the side of the railroad tracks that pass next to their homes. The series
was probably done as either a project during the Works Project Administration or perhaps for a maga-
zine article.
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