Age Quote by Charles Kuralt

The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was…

— Jacqueline Woodson

“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

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

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

We've done a very poor job at really reflecting on our legacy of racial inequality... You see it in the South, but it's everywhere.

— Bryan Stevenson

We were growing up in West Virginia. Everybody was poor there in the southern part of the state. It was like growing up in…

— Anonymous

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

In 1990, when we started the Black Community Crusade for Children, we were always talking about all children, but we paid particular attention to…

— Marian Wright Edelman

That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South.…

— Isabel Wilkerson

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

... most Southerners of my parents' era were raised to feel that it wasn't respectable to be rich. We felt that all patriotic Southerners…

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people…

— Diane Nash