W.E.B. Du Bois: “Who bought and sold their crime and waxed fat and rich on public iniquity?”

And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.

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

A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.

This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of…