On the record
I know some towns where a straight line drawn through the middle of the main street separates nine-tenths of the whites from nine-tenths of the blacks.
Said by
W.E.B. Du Bois
Source
gutenberg.orgW.E.B. Du Bois: “I know some towns where a straight line drawn through the middle of the main street separates nine-tenths of the whites…”
Editor's note · Context
Du Bois illustrates the stark racial divisions in some Southern towns based on main street geography.
Share
More from W.E.B. Du Bois
Jan 1, 1903
Let the ears of a guilty people tingle with truth, and seventy millions sigh for the righteousness which exalteth nations, in this drear day when human brotherhood is mockery and a snare.
Jan 1, 1903
Around us the history of the land has centred for thrice a hundred years; out of the nation’s heart we have called all that was best to throttle and subdue all that was worst; fire and blood, prayer and sacrifice, have billowed over this…
Jan 1, 1903
If somewhere in this whirl and chaos of things there dwells Eternal Good, pitiful yet masterful, then anon in His good time America shall rend the Veil and the prisoned shall go free.