W.E.B. Du Bois: “We do just as little as possible and only threat or catastrophe induces us to do more than a minimum.”

The holocaust of war, the terrors of the Ku-Klux Klan, the lies of carpet-baggers, the disorganization of industry, and the contradictory advice of friends and foes, left the bewildered serf with no new watchword beyond the old cry for…

So the Cotton Kingdom still lives; the world still bows beneath her sceptre.

And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.

Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!