“But when we have vaguely said that Education will set this tangle straight, what have we uttered but a truism? Training for life teaches living; but what training for the profitable living together of black men and white?” RaceEducationKnowledgeLearningTrainingAfrican AmericansBlacksRace RelationsWhites Book:The Souls of Black Folk Source: The Souls of Black Folk
“Skillfully, and with calculation, the economic problems of Reconstruction were being changed by planters and capitalists to look like problems of politics and social recognition.” RaceClassEconomicsReconstructionIdentity PoliticsSocial Recognition Author:W.E.B. Du Bois
“It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, shrieking to its own kind, and privilege and property heard and recognized the voice of its own.” CultureRacePropertyPrivilegeReconstructionJim Crow Book:Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Source: Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
“The true significance of slavery in the United States to the whole social development of America lay in the ultimate relation of slaves to democracy. What were to be the limits of democratic control in the United States? If all labor, black as well as white, became free – were given schools and the right to vote – what control could or should be set to the power and action of these laborers? Was the rule of the mass of Americans to be unlimited, and the right to rule extended to all men regardless of race and color, or if not, what power of dictatorship and control; and how would property and privilege be protected? This was the great and primary question which was in the minds of the men who wrote the Constitution of the United States and continued in the minds of thinkers down through the slavery controversy. It still remains with the world as the problem of democracy expands and touches all races and nations.” AmericaRaceUnited StatesDemocracyLaborConstitutionEqualityEquityLaborers Book:Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 Source: Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880