Black Quote by Bill Ayers

They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity vibrating between…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“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

Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Not a single Southern legislature stood ready to admit a Negro, under any conditions, to the polls; not a single Southern legislature believed free…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the…

— Jeff Sessions

As black people, we want our story to be this constant ascendance from slavery. But it's not like that. You push and it goes…

— Stanley Nelson Jr

There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be…

— Bryan Stevenson

“A generation or so after slavery ended, segregationists enacted Jim Crow laws that made it impossible for most blacks to vote in the South.”

— Patricia T. O'Conner

“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

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

— Clarence Thomas

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

— Ida B. Wells