W.E.B. Du Bois: “Colored Americans must then with deep determination educate their children in the broadest, highest way.”

One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

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

This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.

Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!