W.E.B. Du Bois: “Who bought and sold their crime and waxed fat and rich on public iniquity?”

The holocaust of war, the terrors of the Ku-Klux Klan, the lies of carpet-baggers, the disorganization of industry, and the contradictory advice of friends and foes, left the bewildered serf with no new watchword beyond the old cry for…

The direct result of this system is an all-cotton scheme of agriculture and the continued bankruptcy of the tenant.

And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,—peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe.

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