The struggle for reformatories, which has gone on in Virginia, Georgia, and other States, is the one encouraging sign of the awakening of some communities to the suicidal results of this policy.
Du Bois notes the efforts in certain states to reform juvenile justice systems as a positive sign of community awareness and action.
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Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.
Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.