W.E.B. Du Bois: “And some felt gratitude toward the race thus sacrificed in its swaddling clothes on the altar of national integrity; and…”

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness…

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

But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.

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