W.E.B. Du Bois: “Strong and straightforward as this resolution was, time unfortunately proved that it meant very little.”

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

Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.