The literary output of The Crisis was strongest during the years of the Harlem Renaissance, from 1919 to 1929. Five years after Jessie Redmon Fauset [11] stepped down as literary editor, Du Bois established an annual prize for writing in three categories—poetry, fiction,and nonfiction—in hopes of encouraging new talent.
Du Bois’ interest in socialist thought became more pronounced at the end of his tenure as editor-in-chief of The Crisis. This issue—on the heels of stories on Leninism in Africa, and Du Bois’ controversial “Communism and the Negro” essay—turned to Karl Marx’s economic philosophy and its import for American blacks.
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