Especially is this true in districts where the farmers are composed of the more ignorant class of poor whites, and the Negroes are beyond the reach of schools and intercourse with their advancing fellows.
Du Bois highlights the educational and social barriers faced by Negroes in certain districts.
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So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.
This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of…
The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.
The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.