W.E.B. Du Bois: “It is my present task, therefore, to indicate, from my point of view, how the black race in the South meet and mingle…”

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

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…

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

This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of…