"The Negro voter ... had, then, but one clear economic ideal and that was his demand for land, his demand that the gre…"

"This much is certain. If the present Democratic leadership is right, then Calhoun and Jefferson Davis were wrong. If …"

"These Negroes, they're getting pretty uppity these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now t…"

"It should, however, already be clear that the building of an independent force is necessary; that Black Power is nece…"

"White Democrats opposed Reconstruction not because it was a failure, but because it was working. Today almost all his…"

"But Booth’s assassination of Lincoln was also part of a larger plot to throw the North into chaos. Thus the killing c…"

"The Fifteenth Amendment was passed by Congress and ratified during the Reconstruction Era, when the progressive wing …"

"A weak man declares a woman a temptress and orders her to cover herself. A strong man covers himself and says nothing."

"How is one statute against murder or rape or theft different from any other?” I said, though my mind had careened int…"

"understanding. Do we wish our children to do as they are told forever, simply because we told them what they should d…"