W.E.B. Du Bois: “We have but to view the unsatisfactory relations of the sexes the world over and the problem of children to realize how…”

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.

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

Years have passed away since then,—ten, twenty, forty; forty years of national life, forty years of renewal and development, and yet the swarthy spectre sits in its accustomed seat at the Nation’s feast.