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
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
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
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
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
“A generation or so after slavery ended, segregationists enacted Jim Crow laws that made it impossible for most blacks to vote in… — Patricia T. O'Conner 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
“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
Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
I am a lifelong Mississippian. I remember Jim Crow, 'colored' and 'white' water fountains, and my mother's inability to try on a… — Mike Espy 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
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
“It is as if we have reentered the past and are living in a second Nadir: It seems the rate of police… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
So more and more black folk tend to be well-adjusted to [Barack] Obama's presidency, but does that mean they're well-adjusted to injustice?… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Consequences flow from a justice's interpretation in a direct and immediate way. A judicial decision respecting the incompatibility of Jim Crow with… — William J. Brennan 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“Although it is common to think of Jim Crow as an explicitly race-based system, in fact a number of the key policies… — Michelle Alexander 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
What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November… — Questlove 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
“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
“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
“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
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
My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. — Condoleezza Rice 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
Racism is not just slavery and Jim Crow. It is the daily violence that is enacted on our communities each and every… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
Out of abysses of Illiteracy, Through labyrinths of Lies, Across wastelands of Disease . . . We advance Out of dead-ends of… — Melvin B. Tolson Copy Share Image
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