W.E.B. Du Bois: “What the black laborer needs is careful personal guidance, group leadership of men with hearts in their bosoms, to train…”

After the Egyptian and Indian, the Greek and Roman, the Teuton and Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him no true self-consciousness…

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

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…

Three things characterized this religion of the slave,—the Preacher, the Music, and the Frenzy.