W.E.B. Du Bois: “Within ten years, twenty million black children ought to be in school.”

The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.

Years have passed away since then,—ten, twenty, forty; forty years of national life, forty years of renewal and development, and yet the swarthy spectre sits in its accustomed seat at the Nation’s feast.

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

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