America Quote by James Meredith

Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars. Anything public…

— James Meredith

I grew up in the era of the desegregation program. I actually got bussed to a predominately white high school. I didn't have a…

— Herm Edwards

I went to Dunbar High School, recognized as the best high school of the segregated era. The education enabled students from Dunbar to attend…

— Eleanor Holmes Norton

I had developed a specifically calculated plan to break the system of white supremacy. My theory was that since Mississippi was the place, this…

— James Meredith

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

— Ruby Bridges

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

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

— Bradley Beal

I went to school in the 70s and the 80s, and the last thing I expected of my schools back then was that they…

— David Olusoga

I chose Alabama because I wanted to be at a place that would push me to become the best version of myself that I…

— Minkah Fitzpatrick

The school for me is the University of Georgia, and I knew it was the right place for me the first time I set…

— Sony Michel

Virginia State University gave me a chance to get out of my neighborhood and it showed me a different light for who I was…

— Rob Morgan

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war…

— Russell Banks