W.E.B. Du Bois: “First, it is the duty of black men to judge the South discriminatingly.”

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

Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the words I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine.

This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of…

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