W.E.B. Du Bois: “And to all this must be added the obvious fact that a slave ancestry and a system of unrequited toil has not improved…”

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.

Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a…