W.E.B. Du Bois: “The amount and kind of human ability necessary need not be decreased,--it may even be vastly increased, with proper…”

The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.

Years have passed away since then,—ten, twenty, forty; forty years of national life, forty years of renewal and development, and yet the swarthy spectre sits in its accustomed seat at the Nation’s feast.

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.