W.E.B. Du Bois: “These, then, are a group of workers, fighting for their daily bread like men; independent and approaching economic…”

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

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

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.

The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the…