W.E.B. Du Bois: “She was primal woman; mighty mother of all men to come and Bride of Life.”

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.

Thus we have two great and hardly reconcilable streams of thought and ethical strivings; the danger of the one lies in anarchy, that of the other in hypocrisy.

He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.

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