W.E.B. Du Bois: “History is but the record of such group-leadership; and yet how infinitely changeful is its type and character!”

The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him.

He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.

The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.

He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.