W.E.B. Du Bois: “This end theoretically should be the greatest good of all, but no human group has ever reached this ideal because of…”

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.

To him, so far as he thought and dreamed, slavery was indeed the sum of all villainies, the cause of all sorrow, the root of all prejudice; Emancipation was the key to a promised land of sweeter beauty than ever stretched before the eyes…

All this segregation by color is largely independent of that natural clustering by social grades common to all communities.

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