W.E.B. Du Bois: “For this, their promise, and for their hard past, I honor the women of my race.”

He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world.

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

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

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self.