Black person Quote by Jaime Harrison

People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks…

— Aldis Hodge

Whether it's on the court or off, there's a sense of understanding that you get from - and I'm not going to say all,…

— Jerami Grant

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

— Michelle Alexander

For the rest of their lives, [black men] can be denied the right to vote, automatically excluded from juries, and legally discriminated against in…

— Michelle Alexander

“Ninety percent of those admitted to prison for drug offenses in many states were black or Latino, yet the mass incarceration of communities of…

— Michelle Alexander

“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins…

— Michelle Alexander

The history of Black Americans in South Carolina is riddled with trials and tribulations.

— Jaime Harrison

As a criminal you have scarcely more rights, and arguably less respect, than a black man living in Alabama at the height of Jim…

— Michelle Alexander

It is apparent, if you go back through our history, that the grand juries of the criminal justice system do not value black lives.

— William Lacy Clay, Jr

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

When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were…

— Leah Ward Sears

It was the law that if a white man was caught trying to educate a Negro slave, he was liable to prosecution entailing a…

— John W. Campbell