Thurgood Marshall was uniquely able to understand and comprehend what it meant to grow up in the Jim Crow south. — Dahlia Lithwick Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe. — Myrlie Evers-Williams Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation: These bonded white people into a broad aristocracy united by the salient fact of unblackness.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Whenever a Republican gets in office, all of a sudden progressives realize that federalism and state's rights aren't necessarily only about defending… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Every Trump voter is certainly not a white supremacist, just as every white person in the Jim Crow South was not a… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow dominated the lives of black people in America from 1890 well into the twentieth century. From conception to coffin, there… — Carol Anderson Copy Share Image
Well, when Christ comes back this time, I hope He comes back mad His own self. I hope He drives the Jim… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
“The Quakers, or Society of Friends, taught the concept of a human family within which everyone is equal, contrary to the politics… — Don Weise Copy Share Image
Jim Crow segregation was bipartisan. The refusal of women suffrage was bipartisan. The denial of the basic dignity of members of the… — Raphael Warnock Copy Share Image
“It seems the rate of police killings now surpasses the rate of lynchings during the worst decades of the Jim Crow era.… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying… — Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Copy Share Image
More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
Since the nations founding, African Americans repeatedly have been controlled through institutions such as slavery and Jim Crow, which appear to die… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
The programs that came to be known as the New Deal were not simply handed down by the benevolence of FDR and… — Kshama Sawant Copy Share Image
“Back there, before Jim Crow, before the invention of the Negro or the white man or the words and concepts to describe… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“It is also clear that structural racism is beating down the black chef. It started with segregation; black chefs in the South… — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“Within half a century after Butler sent Charles Mallory away from Fortress Monroe empty-handed, the children of white Union and Confederate soldiers… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow repeated the old strategies of the reptilian powers of the air: to convince human beings simultaneously and paradoxically that they… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I grew up on a farm and, prior to my father's murder, I wanted to get away from the farm, and away… — Shirley Sherrod Copy Share Image
“Today my elation over Obama's election is tempered by a far more sobering awareness. As an African American woman, with three young… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basic structure of our society than with… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“back,” Daddy said. “It’ll work out.” He had no idea what to do about Helen. They spoke a completely different language. He… — James McBride Copy Share Image
“In a nation still stuck in an old Jim Crow mind-set - which equates racism with white bigotry and views racial diversity… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Got orders from headquarters. They makin' coffins fuh all de white folks. 'Tain't nothin' but cheap pine, but dat's better'n nothin'. Don't… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
In order to better charge Moscow with human rights violations, the United States had to bend with regard to the more excessive… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
[Barack Obama] grew up in Hawaii, far, far removed from the most, you know, sort of violent, you know, tendencies of Jim… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws… — Corrine Brown Copy Share Image
If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
As a criminal you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Black women, historically, have been doubly victimized by the twin immoralities of Jim Crow and Jane Crow. ... Black women, faced with… — Pauli Murray Copy Share Image
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