W.E.B. Du Bois: “We are spending one dollar for education where we should spend ten dollars.”

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…

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…

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

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