They mobilized all the machinery of modern oppression: taxes, city ordinances, licenses, state laws, municipal regulations, wholesale police arrests and, of course, the peculiarly Southern method of the mob and the lyncher.
Du Bois outlines the various oppressive mechanisms used to control and exploit Black people in the South.
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In song and exhortation swelled one refrain—Liberty; in his tears and curses the God he implored had Freedom in his right hand.
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
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