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THE CRISIS
A RECORD OF THE DARKER RACES

Volume OneJANUARY, 1911Number Three

Edited by W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS, with the co-operation of Oswald Garrison Villard, J. Max Barber, Charles Edward Russell, Kelly Miller, W. S. Braithwaite and M. D. Maclean.

CONTENTS
Along the Color Line [5]
Opinion [9]
A Winter Pilgrimage [15]
Editorial [16]
Cartoon [18]
By JOHN HENRY ADAMS
Editorial [20]
Social Control [22]
By JANE ADDAMS
The Teacher: Poem [23]
By LESLIE PINCKNEY HILL
Employment of Colored Women in Chicago [24]
The Burden [26]
Talks About Women [27]
By Mrs. J. E. MILHOLLAND
What to Read [28]

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National President—Mr. Moorfield Storey, Boston, Mass.

Chairman of the Executive Committee—Mr. Wm. English Walling, New York.

Treasurer—Mr. John E. Milholland, New York.

Disbursing Treasurer—Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, New York.

Director of Publicity and Research—Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, New York.

Executive Secretary—Miss Frances Blascoer, New York.

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Mrs. Max Morgenthau, Jr., New York.

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Mr. Henry Moskowitz, New York.

Miss Leonora O’Reilly, New York.

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[[1]]Mr. Charles Edward Russell, New York.

Mr. Jacob H. Schiff, New York.

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[[1]]Rev. Joseph Silverman, New York.

Mrs. Anna Garlin Spencer, New York.

Mrs. Henry Villard, New York.

Miss Lillian D. Wald, New York.

[[1]]Bishop Alexander Walters, New York.

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Rev. Jas. E. Haynes, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y.

[[1]]Rev. John Haynes Holmes, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Miss M. R. Lyons, Brooklyn, N. Y.

[[1]]Miss M. W. Ovington, Brooklyn, N. Y.

[[1]]Dr. O. M. Waller, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Mrs. M. H. Talbert, Buffalo, N. Y.

Hon. Thos. M. Osborne, Auburn, N. Y.

[[1]]Mr. W. L. Bulkley, Ridgewood, N. J.

Mr. George W. Crawford, New Haven, Conn.

Miss Maria Baldwin, Boston, Mass.

Mr. Francis J. Garrison, Boston, Mass.

Mr. Archibald H. Grimke, Boston, Mass.

[[1]]Mr. Albert E. Pillsbury, Boston, Mass.

Mr. Wm. Munroe Trotter, Boston, Mass.

Dr. Horace Bumstead, Brookline, Mass.

Miss Elizabeth C. Carter, New Bedford, Mass.

Prest. Chas. T. Thwing, Cleveland, O.

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Mr. W. Justin Carter, Harrisburg, Pa.

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Prof. Kelly Miller, Washington, D. C.

Prof. L. B. Moore, Washington, D. C.

Justice W. P. Stafford, Washington, D. C.

[[1]]Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Washington, D. C.

[[1]]Rev. J. Milton Waldron, Washington, D. C.

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Mr. Leslie P. Hill, Manassas, Va.

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