W.E.B. Du Bois: “It is plain to modern white civilization that the subjection of the white working classes cannot much longer be…”

He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.

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

Away with the black man’s ballot, by force or fraud,—and behold the suicide of a race!

The ballot, which before he had looked upon as a visible sign of freedom, he now regarded as the chief means of gaining and perfecting the liberty with which war had partially endowed him.