The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
I think we've become blind in this country to the ways in which we've managed to reinvent a caste-like system here in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes… — Henry Giroux 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
People have said over the years that the reason I did not give up my seat was because I was tired. I… — Rosa Parks 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
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
“The general public typically traces the death of Jim Crow to Brown v. Board of Education, although the institution was showing signs… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Those labeled felons may be denied the right to vote, are automatically excluded from juries, and may be legally discriminated against in… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Got a New Boy swag & this here for y'all, So they gotta keep it separate like the Jim Crow laws, I'm… — New Boyz Copy Share Image
As a teenager growing up during Jim Crow, all I wanted to do was leave Mississippi. But I came back and raised… — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
“The Jim Crow South,” writes Ira Katznelson, a history and political science professor at Columbia, “was the one collaborator America’s democracy could… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy. The majority of the people in the state… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from… — Sidney Blumenthal 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
“Atrocities, including the lynching of more than five hundred Mississippi Negroes—more than any other state—were ennobled as righteous. Lynching went unpunished, murder… — Bruce Watson Copy Share Image
“Despite the strides America has made in the civil rights movement, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African-American president,… — Lisa Bloom Copy Share Image
Never did I think I would live to see the day Jim Crow was resurrected, making repeat appearances in the South. And… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
“I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
In studying food, you embrace everything. Food exposes the long, complex history of the South - slavery, Jim Crow segregation, class struggle,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris 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
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