It is pitiable that frantic efforts must be made at critical times to get law-makers in some States even to listen to the respectful presentation of the black man’s side of a current controversy.
Du Bois laments the systemic difficulty Black men faced in having their perspectives heard by lawmakers in Southern states.
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Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.
The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.
Many of the worst characteristics of the Negro masses of to-day had their seed in this period of the slave’s ethical growth.
All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.