Black Quote by Bernice Johnson Reagon

Even in the '80s and '90s, many white Southerners were still bitter about court decisions that required racial integration of the schools. It wasn't…

— Brianna Wu

I do not inveigh against higher education, I simply maintain that the sort of education the colored people of the South stand most in…

— Timothy Thomas Fortune

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

— Alphonso Jackson

“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and…

— Natasha Trethewey

“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

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of…

— Michael N. Castle

It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in…

— Malcolm X

There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in…

— Bill Ayers

“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“time proved that the persistent educational gap between black and white students was only indirectly traceable to segregation. Instead, the root of the problem…

— Derrick Bell