W.E.B. Du Bois: “Thus one can see in the Negro church to-day, reproduced in microcosm, all the great world from which the Negro is cut…”

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

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 shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the…

And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.