W.E.B. Du Bois: “He did his work,—he did it nobly and well; and yet I sorrow that here he worked alone, with so little human sympathy.”

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

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.

The holocaust of war, the terrors of the Ku-Klux Klan, the lies of carpet-baggers, the disorganization of industry, and the contradictory advice of friends and foes, left the bewildered serf with no new watchword beyond the old cry for…

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