W.E.B. Du Bois: “In the same way and for the same reason children must be educated, insanity prevented, and only those put under the…”

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

Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.