Childhood Quote by Jacqueline Woodson

Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you couldn't get…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Racial segregation in the South not only separated the races, but it separated the South from the rest of the country.

— Robert Dallek

“A generation or so after slavery ended, segregationists enacted Jim Crow laws that made it impossible for most blacks to vote in the South.”

— Patricia T. O'Conner

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and…

— John Shelton Reed

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think…

— Charles Kuralt

I grew up in the South. I grew up in the days of legalized segregation. And, so, whether you called it legal racial segregation…

— Johnnetta B. Cole

I was raised by people who, like my father, came out of the Jim Crow South because Michigan was the place that people immigrated…

— John E. James

People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true.…

— Jesmyn Ward

Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people…

— Diane Nash

Segregation in the South is honest, open and aboveboard. Of the two systems, or styles of segregation, the Northern and the Southern, there is…

— Strom Thurmond

Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

— Wadada Leo Smith