Above and below Quote by Ed Bearss

There is a tendency to want to treat blacks as a monolithic socioeconomic group.

— William Julius Wilson

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinctby time and circumstances, are inferior…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Alison Hammond

The numbers in Ohio as well as the rest of the nation make it clear that the African-American communities have been targeted and logic…

— Mark Crutcher

“It shames me to admit that in the white-defined society in which I was raised, blacks were considered merely background. This was worse than…

— Jonathan Odell

Well into the 20th century, black people spoke of their flight from Mississippi in much the same manner as their runagate ancestors had.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are…

— Thomas Jefferson

I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there…

— J. D. Vance

“Jim Crow dominated the lives of black people in America from 1890 well into the twentieth century. From conception to coffin, there was no…

— Carol Anderson

We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents…

— Nicholas Kristof

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

— Jason Whitlock

I grew up in a time when there was real segregation. And blacks during the 50s and so forth took a lot of responsibility…

— Shelby Steele