Black Quote by Bryan Stevenson

I grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town.

— Bryan Stevenson

I lived in a little working-class town that had no black neighborhoods at all - one high school. We all played together. Everybody was…

— Toni Morrison

I grew up on the Eastern Shore during desegregation. A lot of white parents chose to send their kids to private schools rather than…

— Ralph Northam

“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

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 time when there was real segregation. And blacks during the 50s and so forth took a lot of responsibility…

— Shelby Steele

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

— DeMarcus Cousins

My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told…

— John Lewis

When I think back, I felt like I had the life that a lot of white American kids grew up with in the suburbs…

— St. Lucia

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 grew up in a small town and never went to a Black school.

— Mathew Knowles

I grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood. My high school and my junior high school were both predominantly black.

— Dawn Staley