How to pronounce“krigwa”in English

In 1925 Du Bois and Regina Anderson founded the Krigwa Players, based out of the basement of a public library on 135th Street.

In 1923, Willis Richardson, who had won the Krigwa playwriting contest several times, had a one-act slice-of-life play, “The Chip Woman’s Fortune,”

In New York that meant theaters like the Provincetown Players, the Washington Square Players, the Neighborhood Playhouse, and the Krigwa Players.

In the midst of the Harlem Renaissance, Du Bois, then-editor of the NAACP’s monthly magazine “The Crisis,” founded Krigwa, which is almost an acronym for the Crisis Guild of Writers and Artists.