W.E.B. Du Bois: “But the labor movement turned their backs on those black men when the white world dinned in their ears.”

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…

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

Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.

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