W.E.B. Du Bois: “But it may be opportunely asked: has our experience in electing public officials led us to think that we could run…”

Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a…

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

Thus we have two great and hardly reconcilable streams of thought and ethical strivings; the danger of the one lies in anarchy, that of the other in hypocrisy.

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