Racial Reconciliation

“That the present social separation and acute race-sensitiveness must eventually yield to the influences of culture…is clear. But such transformation calls for singular wisdom and patience [I]t will call for social surgery at once the delicatest and nicest in modern history. It will demand broad-minded, upright men, both white and black, and in its final accomplishment American civilization will triumph.” -W.E.B. Dubois' The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter VI