W.E.B. Du Bois: “Behind echo all the roar and war and care and maze of the wide city set in its sullen darkening walls, flashing weird…”

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…

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

Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.

Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.