Self-Censorship of The Crisis, 1917

This Branch will be glad to co-operate with you in any constructive programe which you may suggest for the eradication of any just causes for complaint, but it can not tolerate carping and bitter utterances likely to foment disaffection and destroy the morale of our people for the winning of the war.

Self-Censorship of The Crisis 1917

A branch chief in the Military Intelligence Branch warns Charles Studin, NAACP Executive Board member, to eliminate all matter that may render NAACP’s magazine “liable to suppression in the future.”

National Archives, Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs