W.E.B. Du Bois: “We will obey the law, but to ask for voluntary segregation is to insult ourselves." But strong, sober second thought…”

He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.

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

The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him.

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