Back Quote by David Olusoga

In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and…

— Natasha Trethewey

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

In terms of school, we never got taught anything about black history. Growing up, a lot of things are hidden away from you.

— Andre Gray

I know I'm going back some decades, but I'll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few Black kids in a predominantly…

— Jonathan Capehart

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of…

— Michael N. Castle

At 16, I went to Smith College in Massachusetts and that was right after the peak of the civil-rights movement and all the rest.…

— Yolanda King

I went to white schools and I didn't know anything about black history.

— Ed Dwight

There's a lot of black history - my history - that I don't know about.

— Alison Hammond

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

— Mathew Knowles

I didn't learn black history in school. I had to go find Malcolm X books.

— Rza

I went to a school that was predominantly white, and I was one of the first wave of black kids.

— Jay Blades

I was black, studying physics and engineering. I was from a small school nobody ever heard of.

— Edwin Moses