The Crisis
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==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
This magazine is a direct representation of the varying struggles that African-Americans went through in the early 20th century. Through the issues that the Modernist Journals Project offers, we can see the how African Americans went through life during the early 1900s. With World War 1 and women's suffrage going on during this time, the main focus of this magazine was to share different stories of African-Americans. This magazine is illustrated through editorial articles, opinion-based essays, detailed pictures, or drawings in the earlier years, and even the advertisements found at the end of every issue. With this webpage, and through investigation of the issues of The Crisis offered on the Modernist Journals Project, we hope to answer the question of whether women's suffrage or World War 1 had more of an effect on African Americans. | This magazine is a direct representation of the varying struggles that African-Americans went through in the early 20th century. Through the issues that the Modernist Journals Project offers, we can see the how African Americans went through life during the early 1900s. With World War 1 and women's suffrage going on during this time, the main focus of this magazine was to share different stories of African-Americans. This magazine is illustrated through editorial articles, opinion-based essays, detailed pictures, or drawings in the earlier years, and even the advertisements found at the end of every issue. With this webpage, and through investigation of the issues of The Crisis offered on the Modernist Journals Project, we hope to answer the question of whether women's suffrage or World War 1 had more of an effect on African Americans. | ||
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==Close Readings== | ==Close Readings== | ||
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===Volume 25, Number 2=== | ===Volume 25, Number 2=== | ||
The last issue that is available in the Modernist Journals Project was published in December of 1922, and interestingly enough it ties together a lot of the themes found within the entire magazine as a whole. One woman wrote to the magazine with, "I believe ignorance is the main trouble with white people now. Of course it is criminal ignorance. For myself I can only say 'I did not know,' otherwise I should have been long ago doing all in my power to bring about justice for all." She pin points the overall goal of "The Crisis" with spreading an understanding of what it is like to be an African-American at this time, with the war and all other global event. | The last issue that is available in the Modernist Journals Project was published in December of 1922, and interestingly enough it ties together a lot of the themes found within the entire magazine as a whole. One woman wrote to the magazine with, "I believe ignorance is the main trouble with white people now. Of course it is criminal ignorance. For myself I can only say 'I did not know,' otherwise I should have been long ago doing all in my power to bring about justice for all." She pin points the overall goal of "The Crisis" with spreading an understanding of what it is like to be an African-American at this time, with the war and all other global event. | ||
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| + | ==Text Mining== | ||
| + | To further our examination of how these themes are tangled into the many issues of The Crisis, we used the Text Mining Tool to see which specific words are used more' those that may be used when discussing World War 1 or those used within conversations about Women's Suffrage. The individual words we chose were "war" and "draft," as they may be evident in consideration of the war, and "women" and "vote," which are obviously necessary to the understanding of this movement. | ||
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| + | <html><iframe style='width: 49%; height: 400px' src='//voyant-tools.org/?query=war&bins=100&corpus=1351006670332.4242&view=Trends'></iframe></iframe></html><html><iframe style='width: 49%; height: 400px' src='//voyant-tools.org/?query=draft*&bins=100&corpus=1351006670332.4242&view=Trends'></iframe></html> | ||
==Conclusion== | ==Conclusion== | ||
| − | Through various reading strategies, we were able to see how this magazine related to African-Americans at this time period and how the authors illustrated the influence of World War 1 to everyday citizens. The timeline and Voyant tools helped us dissect different qualities of | + | Through various reading strategies, we were able to see how this magazine related to African-Americans at this time period and how the authors illustrated the influence of World War 1 and the strategies of the Women's Suffrage Movement to everyday citizens. The timeline and Voyant tools helped us dissect different qualities of these issues, from the occurrence of specific war or voting related words, to an overall chronological organization of specific events. To conclude our investigation and answer the question of whether the war or political stance of women's right to vote had more of an effect on African American's, through the above procedures, the Women's Suffrage Movement is more prevalent within The Crisis. |
