The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races Vol. 76, No. 2, Whole Number 660, February 1969

Vol. 76, No. 2, Whole Number 660. Cover portrait of Frederick Douglass by Charles Alston. Slim octavo. [3], 58-97, [5] pp. Illustrated from photographs. Address label of Anna Butler (see below) on the lower wrap causing just a bit of rippling, front cover with a bit of faint staining, a near fine copy. Prints "The Negro as Fighting Man" by Michael S. Davidson, "Negro History or Mythology" by Roy Wilkins, "That Other Man" by playwright Loften Mitchell, "Teach Me Harlem, a Poem" by Lee Bennett Hopkins, "Alston: American Artist" by Warren Marr, II", and a six-page history of the NAACP (that month being its sixtieth anniversary), among other material. The final five pages print photographs of NAACP members honored with Life Memberships. The recipient of this copy is undoubtedly Atlantic City schoolteacher Anna Land Butler, an African-American woman who published at least two books of poetry, one of which (we handled the magazine's response letter) she submitted to *The Crisis*. An interesting issue with a nice association.…