Attention Quote by Barack Obama

At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority…

— Jonathan Kozol

“Many white children in this city never set foot in a public school. They follow in the footsteps of their parents and grandparents, attending…

— Kristen Green

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

— Jonathan Kozol

When we talk about politicization, when we talk about book banning, when we talk about Black history curriculum being picked apart - I think…

— Miguel Cardona

“Many Southern communities developed two school systems: an underfunded public system mostly attended by black students, and private schools set up for white children.…

— Kristen Green

The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here. My mother…

— Glenn Ligon

“As with most voluntary school integration programs, dispersal of the black children was the norm. In Portland, no more than forty-five black children were…

— Derrick Bell

It's down to schools to educate children about their history, especially black history.

— Ashley Walters

Progress for black Americans depends on good schools because education is the last great equalizer.

— Alphonso Jackson

Young people are constantly absorbing - through media, textbooks, and policy - the myths of American exceptionalism; for black children, this means that what…

— Clint Smith

We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting…

— Spike Lee

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

— Henry Louis Gates