July/August 2000 Volume 107 No. 4

CONTENTS
90-YEAR CELEBRATION ~ THE CRISIS ~ 1910-2000

(Cover portrait: Barbara Higgins Bond)
PART I
- Salutations from U.S. President Bill Clinton
- When Not to Kill (By Wole Soyinka)
- The Global Editor: Du Bois and The Crisis (By Jonathan Rosenberg)

PART II
- Felicitations From New York Gov. George Pataki
   READINGS FROM THE CRISIS 1910-1915
- The Crisis; Its Mission and Purpose
- NAACP. What it is...
- Jessie Fauset: Her Years at The Crisis
- The Negro in Art: A Symposium (By Charles Waddell Chestnutt)
- Opinion: Purity of Blood Three Points of View
- The Lynching Industry
- Short Story: "The Servant" (By Fenton Johnson)
- Profile: Placido (By Jose Clarana)
- Our Negro "Intellectuals" (By Allison Davis)
- The Work of a Mob (By Walter White)
- Cartoon Portfolio, Sketches of African-American Past
- Opinion: Appeal to Europe
- COMMENTARY
- Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing (By James Weldon Johnson)
- Crisis Editors: 90 Years of Editorial Excellence

PART III
- The World of the NAACP
* Congratulations From NAACP President Emeritus Mrylie Evers William
- Anna Aponte: NAACP's Events Planner Extraordinaire (By Noelle Llewellyn)
- James Murray: Preserving a Legacy, Cherishing History
- Hiewet Senghor: Leading Youth, Bringing Victory
- NAACP Strategic Blueprint
- Two Past ACT-SO Winners: Where Are They Now? (By Phil Petrie)
- The Last Word (By Charles Whitehead)

DEPARTMENTS
- Editor's Notebook by Ida E. Lewis
- Poem: "The Creation" by James Weldon Johnson
- Letters: Then and Now
- Poem: "The Burden of Black Women
- Cinema. Birth of a Nation
- Art: Bessie Harvey's Sculpture: The Beast in the Tree Trunk

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Crisis Icons:
W.E.B. Du Bois ~ Langston Hughes ~ James Weldon Johnson ~ Augusta Savage ~ Claude McKay ~ Sterling Brown ~ Countee Cullen ~ Jessie Redmon Fauset
(Cover Portrait by
Barbara Higgins Bond)