W.E.B. Du Bois: “What have you done or would do better than this if you had today the world rule?”

The holocaust of war, the terrors of the Ku-Klux Klan, the lies of carpet-baggers, the disorganization of industry, and the contradictory advice of friends and foes, left the bewildered serf with no new watchword beyond the old cry for…

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

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

They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at…