W.E.B. Du Bois: “Let the cup pass from us, tempt us not beyond our strength, for there is that clamoring and clawing within, to whose…”

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.

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

To him, so far as he thought and dreamed, slavery was indeed the sum of all villainies, the cause of all sorrow, the root of all prejudice; Emancipation was the key to a promised land of sweeter beauty than ever stretched before the eyes…

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