“I have often pointed out to students that the Jim Crow order had a specific and relatively brief life span. It was… — Adolph L. Reed Jr Copy Share Image
Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial… — Michelle Alexander 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
Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Like Jim Crow (and slavery), mass incarceration operates as a tightly networked system of laws, policies, customs, and institutions that operate collectively… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Jim Crow, moreover, was seen executing his world-renowned dance, in gingerbread.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Overt bigotry, Jim Crow laws and policies, government-mandated discrimination, and the belief in black inferiority have virtually disappeared. Laissez-faire racism, instead, involves… — Thomas Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Parents and schoolteachers counsel black children that, if they ever hope to escape this system and avoid prison time, they must be… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
As described in 'The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,' the cyclical rebirth of caste in America is… — 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
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
“When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire. — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems. — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
“Who will protect your rights better? A king, president or you? Who will protect the truth? A reporter, a labor union or… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Faith in God helped black Americans endure slavery and Jim Crow. — Jesse Lee Peterson 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
“American cold war culture represented an age of anxiety. The anxiety was so severe that it sought relief in an insistent, assertive… — W. Scott Poole 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 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
“For the first time in the history of America, New Deal policies made homeownership a real possibility for white families, but black… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
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