Of every five dollars spent for public education in the State of Georgia, the white schools get four dollars and the Negro one dollar; and even then the white public-school system, save in the cities, is bad and cries for reform.
Du Bois presents a stark statistical example of the severe racial disparity in educational funding in the Southern states.
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The things evidently borrowed from the surrounding world undergo characteristic change when they enter the mouth of the slave.
Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warning have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood.
Out of them rose for me morning, noon, and night, bursts of wonderful melody, full of the voices of my brothers and sisters, full of the voices of the past.