W.E.B. Du Bois: “The cry for service as high as heaven, as wide as human feeling, seemed filling the earth.”

Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.

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

And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.

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