W.E.B. Du Bois: “And both things are true and both belong to this our world, and neither can be denied.”

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

The holocaust of war, the terrors of the Ku-Klux Klan, the lies of carpet-baggers, the disorganization of industry, and the contradictory advice of friends and foes, left the bewildered serf with no new watchword beyond the old cry for…

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

Years have passed away since then,—ten, twenty, forty; forty years of national life, forty years of renewal and development, and yet the swarthy spectre sits in its accustomed seat at the Nation’s feast.