Quote by Derrick Bell

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

“time proved that the persistent educational gap between black and white students was only indirectly traceable to segregation. Instead, the root of the problem…

— Derrick Bell

We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical…

— Earl Warren

If you look at the state of California, the children who are not receiving the education that they should are both black and Latino…

— Maria Echaveste

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

Schools are no longer legally segregated, but because of residential patterns, housing discrimination, economic disparities and long-held custom, they most emphatically are in reality.

— Bob Herbert

During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.

— Luis Alberto Urrea

“By 1870, roughly 284,000 blacks accounted for 12 percent of the population of sixteen Western states and territories. But Negroes actually show up as…

— Nicholas Johnson

We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical…

— Earl Warren

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

The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race,…

— Clint Smith

Schools should be integrated by race and by class.

— Nikki Giovanni