W.E.B. Du Bois: “By reason of a crime (perhaps the greatest crime in human history) the modern world has been systematically taught to…”

The shades of the prison-house closed round about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, but relentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who must plod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against the…

Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!

With other black boys the strife was not so fiercely sunny: their youth shrunk into tasteless sycophancy, or into silent hatred of the pale world about them and mocking distrust of everything white; or wasted itself in a bitter cry, Why…

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