Hellraisers Journal: From The Crisis: “The Colored Woman in Industry” by Mary E. Jackson; An Army of Working Women

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You have to act as if it were possible
to radically transform the world.
And you have to do it all the time.
-Angela Davis
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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday November 5, 1918
“An army of women is entering [all] branches of industry.”

From The Crisis of November 1918:

THE COLORED WOMAN IN INDUSTRY
Mary E. Jackson

Mary E Jackson, The Crisis, Nov 1918

JUST as colored men are going into the Army, so colored women are being recruited into industry. Thousands and thousands of eager boys have gone to France; we all know about them. Few of us realize that at the same time an army of women is entering mills, factories and all other branches of industry.

I undertook an industrial survey of these women for the National Board of the Young Women’s Christian Association. I investigated the increasing numbers employed, the kinds of work, wages, working conditions, what has been done, and what more can be done to raise the efficiency of the workers. At the same time I began in each city the organization of industrial women into clubs.

AA Women Workers Punch Press, The Crisis, Nov 1918

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Hellraisers Journal: W. E. B. Du Bois for The Crisis: 349th Field Artillery Regiment Admired for Gallantry by French Mayor

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Quote DuBois, WWI We Return, The Crisis, May 1919 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Hellraisers Journal – Monday November 4, 1918
French Mayor Bids Fond Farewell to 349th Field Artillery Regiment

Of the sojourn of yourself and your colored soldiers amongst us, we will keep the best memory and remember your regiment as a picked one. From the beginning a real brotherhood was established between your soldiers and our people who are glad to welcome the gallant Allies of our France.

From The Crises of November 1918:

WWI, Soldier on Battlefield, Cover The Crisis, Nov 1918

Opinion by W. E. B. Du Bois:

The Crisis, Opinion of WEB DuBois, Nov 1918

SOLDIERS

SLOWLY but surely the effort of the Government to satisfy just Negro public opinion increases: The registration card for the selective draft omits the inexcusable discrimination attached to the first registration; a colored correspondent has been sent to the front by the Public Information Bureau; a loan to Liberia has been announced; Haiti and Liberia were prominently featured among the Allies during Liberty Loan weeks; colored colleges have been designated as official military training schools, and there will be a colored man on the War Service Commission soon to go abroad.

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