Frederick Douglass: “Education being among the menacing influences, and, perhaps, the most dangerous, is, therefore, the most cautiously…”

The vote of the colored man, formerly beaten down and stamped out by intimidation, is now revived, sought, and defended by powerful allies, and this from no transient sentiment of the moment, but from the permanent laws controlling the…

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.

Everywhere in the south the colored man is learning to read.

Nothing but the shot-gun or the bull-dozer’s whip can keep them from voting their convictions.