Community Quote by Bryan Stevenson

I remember being a teenager, I never thought that I'd live in a society that was not segregated. It happened.

— Shelby Steele

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into…

— Bryan Stevenson

When I was a child, it was segregated, and I couldn't go across a fence to certain parts of Gainesville.

— Charles Bradley

There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.

— Claudette Colvin

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the…

— Angela Davis

I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a…

— Ed Kowalczyk

I grew up in a rough area, went to an all-black school, public school.

— DeMarcus Cousins

I grew up in small-town America, black, disadvantaged.

— Cris Carter

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

— Alice Walker

So, I was in a segregated, all black, public elementary school until fourth grade, until my father died. And that's when my mother transferred…

— Maya Wiley

I grew up in a small segregated steel town 6o miles outside of Cleveland, my parents grew up in the segregated south. As a…

— Lori Lightfoot

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson