The Crisis, July 1912
I am pleased to know we have such a paper as The Crisis. If the whole family of colored newspapers were more like it, how much better it would be for our race. Here in the community we have settled the "Race Problem," and some of our people, in fact most all, are shortsighted enough to think it is settled everywhere. There is some friction here, but it amounts to just the same as if they were all one - in fact, there is more trouble between colored and colored and white and white than between colored and white - a quarrel or fight between the two races being rare. The farmers in each race do not hesitate to exchange work and sit at each others' tables, and they trade as freely as if each were all white or all colored. I have no complaint at home, but let me travel away, then I find that there is a "Race Problem," and that "Race Problem" will have to be settled in some way.
Esau Harris
Cutler, Ohio
[The Crisis, official publication of the NAACP, was founded in 1910 by W.E.B. Du Bois. It is a journal of civil rights, history, politics and culture related to African American issues.]
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