W.E.B. Du Bois: “The indictment of Africa against Europe is grave.”

The form and disposition of the laborers’ cabins throughout the Black Belt is to-day the same as in slavery days.

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.

To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

Whatever of good may have come in these years of change, the shadow of a deep disappointment rests upon the Negro people,—a disappointment all the more bitter because the unattained ideal was unbounded save by the simple ignorance of a…