W.E.B. Du Bois: “I wanted to help to build a great university.”

The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

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

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…