W.E.B. Du Bois: “Just here it is that modern men demand that Democracy supplant skilfully concealed, but all too evident, Monarchy.”

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…

They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at…

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

The Nation has not yet found peace from its sins; the freedman has not yet found in freedom his promised land.