Choice Quote by Herm Edwards

I grew up on the Eastern Shore during desegregation. A lot of white parents chose to send their kids to private schools rather than…

— Ralph Northam

Fifty-four years ago, I was an 8-year-old boy living in rural Kentucky when the schools were desegregated. I walked into a white school where…

— Dwane Casey

I went to an all-white school in high school.

— Bradley Beal

I went to a school that was predominantly white, and I was one of the first wave of black kids.

— Jay Blades

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

— Ruby Bridges

I grew up in a very white middle-class area, and obviously I'm not that.

— Griff

So, I was in a segregated, all black, public elementary school until fourth grade, until my father died. And that's when my mother transferred…

— Maya Wiley

I couldn't go to school with whites. Now there are schools that educate everyone.

— Joe Frazier

I remember being a young black kid in high school, I didn't think the establishment or the political system was for me. I didn't…

— Jamaal Bowman

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

I went to a predominantly white secondary school and experienced a lot of hate and racism.

— Jay Blades

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