W.E.B. Du Bois: “I loved my school, and the fine faith the children had in the wisdom of their teacher was truly marvellous.”

This, then, is the end of his striving: to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.

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.

The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.

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