W.E.B. Du Bois: “At last, forbear and waver as I would, I faced the great Decision.”

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

A million black men started with renewed zeal to vote themselves into the kingdom.

Fully ninety-four per cent have struggled for land and failed, and half of them sit in hopeless serfdom.

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…