W.E.B. Du Bois: “What I had to show was that no real reorganization of industry could be permanently made with the majority of mankind…”

Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a…

This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of…

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.

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