Added Quote by Ed Smith

The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

— Walter Dean Myers

Segregation, in a sense, helped create and maintain black solidarity.

— Randall Kennedy

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

It is important that the strongest pressures against the continuation of segregation, North or South, be continually and constantly manifested. Probably, as much as…

— Thurgood Marshall

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

— Carter G. Woodson

“the discrimination was ignored or discounted, and the fiscal habits of Black people were blamed for the growing fiscal inequities and segregation created by…

— Ibram X. Kendi

“Still later, I read Ira Katznelson’s history of discrimination, When Affirmative Action Was White, which argued that similar exclusions applied to other “color-blind” New…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

— Coretta Scott King

Things were tough. Segregation was all around - in the schools, the buses, the restaurants, the theaters. But Dr. King worked hard for black…

— Jesse White

The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all aspects of…

— Alicia Garza

“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of offenses--like child…

— Amy Watkins

“Here is a foundation for understanding today what was clear to only a few fifty years earlier. Now we can see how the state-mandated…

— Derrick Bell