W.E.B. Du Bois: “And this of me, whose one life fanaticism had been belief in my Negro blood!”

Such an assumption is the arrogance of peoples irreverent toward Time and ignorant of the deeds of men.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

Around us the history of the land has centred for thrice a hundred years; out of the nation’s heart we have called all that was best to throttle and subdue all that was worst; fire and blood, prayer and sacrifice, have billowed over this…

Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation,—we fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with theirs, and generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to…