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“Some days there were more police in schools than students. Rumors spread that armed black marauders would ride through their neighborhoods shooting whites at…

— Rick Perlstein

“Without definitive expulsion of all the whites, violence would erupt again; it was just a matter of time. History had demonstrated graphically enough, on…

— Scott Wallace

“To discourage slaves from meeting or escaping, slave owners told tales of gruesome research done on black bodies, then covered themselves in white sheets…

— Rebecca Skloot

“In their wild state, before the appearance of the white man among them, the principal complaints they were subject to were those produced by…

— Ulysses S. Grant

“On Easter Sunday, Nash led a mob of several hundred whites, armed with rifles and a small cannon, who opened fire on the courthouse,…

— Ron Chernow

The whites were really brutishly ignorant, blitheringly, so they killed people sometimes - just came into the African-American community and maimed people because they…

— Maya Angelou

“Whitepeople believed that whatever the manners, under every dark skin was a jungle. Swift unnavigable waters, swinging screaming baboons, sleeping snakes, red gums ready…

— Toni Morrison

“There were people dying everywhere getting massacred in every town and village, there were people being picked up and thrown into dark jails in…

— Mirza Waheed

“Walter White’s more remarkable achievement in print was the book Rope and Faggot, which distilled his firsthand accounts of more than forty lynchings. Passing…

— Nicholas Johnson

“The region now entered by the police was one of traditionally evil repute, substantially unknown and untraversed by white men.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“The hostility of the whites had become so deeply implanted in my mind and feelings that it had lost direct connection with the daily…

— Richard Wright

“Thousands of brave black soldiers were dead for no other crime than that of refusing to be slaves once more. The colony was devastated,…

— CLR James