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
“In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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 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
“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
Faith in God helped black Americans endure slavery and Jim Crow. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
I was born black, I attended all Negro schools including college, I grew up in the segregated South during Jim Crow. If… — Ezola B. Foster Copy Share Image
The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during… — Jim Webb 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 a long, ugly history of white supremacy in this country, ranging from Jim Crow laws to keep African Americans down… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals'… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
I personally pledge myself to openly counsel, aid, and abet youth, both black and white, to quarantine any Jim Crow conscription system. — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
The welfare state has done to Black Americans what slavery (and Jim Crow and racism) could not have done. . .break up… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The government can back up its tastes and beliefs with the police power. That is why it cannot be permitted tastes and… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“For African Americans, unfreedom is the historical norm. Enslavement lasted for nearly 250 years. The 150 years that followed have encompassed debt… — Ta-Nehisi Coates 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
Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those… — Barack Obama 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
“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
“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
“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
“There is another, grimmer history to the filibuster, though, one that carries special relevance for me. For almost a century, the filibuster… — Barack Obama 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
“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
“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
“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 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
“The Society for the Colonization of Free People of Color of America, better known as the American Colonization Society was a group… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“This piece of land was our original sin, except we had found no baptismal rite to expunge it from our lives. That… — James Lee Burke 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
“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
“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
