ABSTRACT
Du Bois was now based in New York as editor of the Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races, a monthly periodical concerned with matters involving people of African descent. Booker T. Washington was still seen as representing black America but as Du Bois commented, his leadership had seen nine states introduce railway segregation and six disenfranchise black people. Every year hundreds were being lynched and the North had little interest in the affairs of the old slave states. 1
