W.E.B. Du Bois: “If the black workingmen of the South could earn a decent living under decent circumstances at home, they would not be…”

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

Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.

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.

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…