W.E.B. Du Bois: “The faint discrimination of my hopes and intangible dislikes paled into nothing before this great, red monster of cruel…”

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…

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.

But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.

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