W.E.B. Du Bois: “To think of compelling puppies to take your hard-earned money; fattening hogs to hate you and yours; forcing your way…”

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…

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.

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

In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.