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Easter Crusader, cover page, 1918-1922. 'In this number: "Fighting Savage Hun and Treacherous Cracker". Blind Justice places a laurel crown on the head of a black soldier, magazine dealing with issues of interest to African Americans. The term 'cracker' usually refers to poor rural whites in the Southern United States, and is often used pejoratively. During the First World War, the Allied Powers referred to Germans as 'huns', also pejoratively.