W.E.B. Du Bois: “Even those who braved the rough Atlantic for the highest moral motives fell early victims to the allurements of this…”

But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.

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

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…

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.