W.E.B. Du Bois: “Let the cup pass from us, tempt us not beyond our strength, for there is that clamoring and clawing within, to whose…”

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

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.

They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at…