W.E.B. Du Bois: “In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated servile caste, with restricted rights…”

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.

Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the words I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine.