Journal - Washington

At the end of Chapter 14, "The Atlanta Exposition Address" Du Bois writes,

As a rule, I believe in universal, free suffrage, but I believe that in the South we are confronted with peculiar conditions that justify the protection of the ballot in many of the states, for a while at least, either by an education test, a property test, or by both combined; but whatever tests are required, they should be made to apply with equal and exact justice to both races.

React to this statement. Is it relavant to today?