1960s Quote by Bruce Springsteen

Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so…

— Bryan Stevenson

My father saw two black men lynched on his street in Cartersville, as a child. And I think seeing two black businessmen - not…

— Toni Morrison

Coming from the '50s, things were very violent. We were still being lynched. If I drove down through the South with my mother, I…

— Pam Grier

In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for…

— Assata Shakur

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

— Jerry Garcia

“It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural strangers ‘out of place’ in the city, were upsetting to Midwestern, urban whites. Rather,…

— J.D. Vance

We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto…

— Quincy Jones

“As one book, Appalachian Odyssey, notes about the influx of hill people to Detroit: “It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural…

— J.D. Vance

In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get…

— Sarah Schulman

“Walter White’s more remarkable achievement in print was the book Rope and Faggot, which distilled his firsthand accounts of more than forty lynchings. Passing…

— Nicholas Johnson

“It was not simply that the Appalachian migrants, as rural strangers ‘out of place’ in the city, were upsetting to Midwestern, urban whites. Rather,…

— J.D. Vance

The end of the '60s was a terrible time. I was in Los Angeles then, and I remember the night someone ran into the…

— Claes Oldenburg