The Election

Author

W.E.B. Du Bois

Published

December 1, 1928

Herbert Hoover and our only hope lies in the smashed and riven “white primary” of the lower South and the faint but heartening promise of the Socialist Third Party.

Meantime, we congratulate Oscar DePriest, the first Negro Congressman from the North and the first Negro in Congress for a generation. He represents a vicious political machine, but he cannot be nearly as bad as the white men who run that machine and have been elected to rule Chicago. Moreover, unless Tammany, Thompson and Vare give us a political chance, who will? Not Hoover. Not Smith.

Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as:
Du Bois, W.E.B. 1928. “The Election.” The Crisis 35 (12): 418, 427. https://www.dareyoufight.org/Volumes/35/12/election.html.