W.E.B. Du Bois: “The Negro church has done much to stop this practice, and now most marriage ceremonies are performed by the pastors.”

He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.

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

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…

In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.