“By the turn of the twentieth century, every state in the South had laws on the books that disenfranchised blacks and discriminated… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“It is fair to say that we have witnessed an evolution in the United States from a racial caste system based entirely… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“We cannot have an enlightened democracy with one great group living in ignorance. We cannot have a healthy nation with one-tenth of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Merely reducing sentence length, by itself, does not disturb the basic architecture of the New Jim Crow. So long as large numbers… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Time and again politicians have betrayed the very racial and ethnic groups they belong to and claim to represent, while also being… — Tipu's Tiger Copy Share Image
“It is a scandal—or, rather, it should be a scandal and one wonders why it isn’t—that the US prison population, after reaching… — Michael Hardt Copy Share Image
“The language of caste may well seem foreign or unfamiliar to some. Public discussions about racial caste in America are relatively rare.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence,… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Jim Crow was king... and I heard a game in which Jackie Robinson was playing, and I felt pride in being alive — Lou Brock Copy Share Image
I grew up hearing my parents' stories about how they had to fight for their right to vote in the Jim Crow… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the… — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
Liberalism and their ideas have done more to kill black folks whom they claim so much to love than the Ku Klux… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
A fatherless boy raised in Jim Crow Texas, my dad was a tenacious autodidact, the first in his family to get a… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
We have always policed the bodies of people of color, and black people in particular. The Jim Crow South is a classic… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
There are black Christians, and black Muslims in Africa who are being slaughtered, they don't want to hear about the Jim Crow… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
During the Jim Crow era, we know that racially targeted and racially motivated voter suppression was often blatant. Legislators adapted overtly racist… — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
