The A1 Crazy Design feastures the ICONIC ALLY Albert Einstein: Einstein's first aggressive criticism of American racism came in 1931. That year, he joined writer Theodore Dreiser's committee to protest the injustice of the "Scottsboro Boys" trial. Also in 1931, Einstein accepted an invitation from the great African-American sociologist and NAACP co-founder W.E.B. Du Bois to submit a piece to his magazine The Crisis. Einstein took the opportunity to applaud civil rights efforts, but also to encourage African-Americans not to let racists drag down their self-worth. Einstein saw racism as a fundamental stumbling block to freedom. In both his science and his politics, Einstein believed in the need for individual liberty: the ability to follow ideas and life paths without fear of oppression. And he knew from his experiences as a Jewish scientist in Germany how easily that freedom could be destroyed in the name of nationalism and patriotism. In a 1946 commencement speech at Lincoln University, the oldest black college in the U.S., Einstein decried American racism in no uncertain terms. Later, he joined the NAACP and the American Crusade Against Lynching (ACAL).