W.E.B. Du Bois: “Given ten millions of dollars a year, what can we best do with the education of a million children?”

Away back in the days of bondage they thought to see in one divine event the end of all doubt and disappointment; few men ever worshipped Freedom with half such unquestioning faith as did the American Negro for two centuries.

Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.

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.