W.E.B. Du Bois: “The Negro cannot stand the present reactionary tendencies and unreasoning drawing of the color-line indefinitely without…”

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

Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it.

Yet even then the hard ruthless rape of the land began to tell.

Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil.