Being Quote by David Steward

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

— Shelby Steele

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

— Anonymous

I remember my school days with mixed emotions; I was so grateful to be given a mainstream education, and yet at times I felt…

— Liz Carr

Because I grew up in Chicago, I didn't have an emotional relationship to segregation. I understood the facts and stories, but there was not…

— Diane Nash

In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

— Maya Angelou

I come up in a segregated 1943 atmosphere of segregation.

— Bill Duke

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

Segregation now, segregation tomorrow and segregation forever!

— George C. Wallace

There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK weekend, and…

— Allison Schroeder

Segregation has never been a shadowy, impossible-to-pin-down conspiracy. It's been an American way of life.

— Jason Whitlock

Once my school was integrated, and I was there with white kids and a few black kids, it really didn't matter to us what…

— Ruby Bridges