W.E.B. Du Bois: “Only faith in humanity will lead the world to rise above its present color prejudice.”

Thus we have two great and hardly reconcilable streams of thought and ethical strivings; the danger of the one lies in anarchy, that of the other in hypocrisy.

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

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

A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.