The object of this publication is to set forth those facts and
arguments which show the danger of race prejudice, particularly as
manifested to-day toward colored people. It takes its name from
the fact that the editors believe that this is a critical time in
the history of the advancement of men. Catholicity and tolerance,
reason and forbearance can to-day make the world-old dream of human
brotherhood approach realization; while bigotry and prejudice,
emphasized race consciousness and force can repeat the awful history
of the contact of nations and groups in the past. We strive for this
higher and broader vision of Peace and Good Will.
The policy of THE CRISIS will be simple and well defined:
It will first and foremost be a newspaper: it will record important
happenings and movements in the world which bear on the great problem
of inter-racial relations, and especially those which affect the
Negro-American.
Secondly, it will be a review of opinion and literature, recording
briefly books, articles, and important expressions of opinion in the
white and colored press on the race problem.
Thirdly, it will publish a few short articles.
Finally, its editorial page will stand for the rights of men,
irrespective of color or race, for the highest ideals of American
democracy, and for reasonable but earnest and persistent attempt to
gain these rights and realize these ideals. The magazine will be the
organ of no clique or party and will avoid personal rancor of all
sorts. In the absence of proof to the contrary it will assume honesty
of purpose on the part of all men, North and South, white and black.