W.E.B. Du Bois: “Today, therefore, we are challenging this ownership; we are demanding general consent as to what materials shall be…”

Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.

Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the words I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine.

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

He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.