W.E.B. Du Bois: “Here is the opportunity for the establishment of a nation that may never recur.”

Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.

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…

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

Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a…