W.E.B. Du Bois: “Lions have no historians, and therefore lion hunts are thrilling and satisfactory human reading.”

Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

Away back in the days of bondage they thought to see in one divine event the end of all doubt and disappointment; few men ever worshipped Freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro for two centuries.

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