W.E.B. Du Bois: “If you wish to ride with me you must come into the “Jim Crow Car.” There will be no objection,—already four other white…”

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

Such an assumption is the arrogance of peoples irreverent toward Time and ignorant of the deeds of men.

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.

So long as the world stands meekly dumb before such questions, shall this nation proclaim its ignorance and unhallowed prejudices by denying freedom of opportunity to those who brought the Sorrow Songs to the Seats of the Mighty?