W.E.B. Du Bois: “All social struggle is evidenced by the rise, first of economic, then of social classes, among a homogeneous population.”

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

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness…

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

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