W.E.B. Du Bois: “Child-labor is to be found here in some of its worst phases, as fostering ignorance and stunting physical development.”

The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.

With other black boys the strife was not so fiercely sunny: their youth shrunk into tasteless sycophancy, or into silent hatred of the pale world about them and mocking distrust of everything white; or wasted itself in a bitter cry, Why…

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…

Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.