W.E.B. Du Bois: “So, too, with American Negroes: the South continually insists that a benevolent guardianship of whites over blacks is…”

The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him.

But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness…