W.E.B. Du Bois: “The number in itself is enough to put at rest the argument that too large a proportion of Negroes are receiving higher…”

And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.

Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!

I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.