People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out… — Aldis Hodge 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
During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Ending feudalism, ending slavery, enacting labor laws, winning universal suffrage, ending Jim Crow laws, overcoming much of the mindset and practice of… — Michael Albert 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
“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were under Jim… — Michelle Alexander 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
There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly… — Henry Giroux 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
“Felon disenfranchisement laws have been more effective in eliminating black voters in the age of mass incarceration than they were during Jim… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address… — Michelle Alexander 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
“The black newspaper writers were nearly unanimous in their support for integration, and so were the owners of Negro-league teams, even though… — Jonathan Eig 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
“The valiant efforts to abolish slavery and Jim Crow and to achieve greater racial equality have brought about significant changes in the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The strength of my mother is something I didn't pay attention to for so long. Here she was, this single mom, who… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of… — Michelle Alexander 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
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
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