Allowed Quote by James Meredith

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see…

— Bennie Thompson

“The state funneled money to private academies for white students.”

— Isabel Wilkerson

I went to an historically black college where we're always told that there's limitation. And so I'm happy to represent for black colleges.

— Terrence J

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

— Joe Frazier

“Many Southern communities developed two school systems: an underfunded public system mostly attended by black students, and private schools set up for white children.…

— Kristen Green

I chose as my target the University of Mississippi, which in 1960 was the holiest temple of white supremacy in America, next to the…

— James Meredith

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

— Gil Scott-Heron

“time proved that the persistent educational gap between black and white students was only indirectly traceable to segregation. Instead, the root of the problem…

— Derrick Bell

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

— Constance Baker Motley

The public schools in our neighborhood were so bad that the teachers in the school said you shouldn't send your kids here. My mother…

— Glenn Ligon

The Mississippi of 1920 was an exceptionally dangerous place for Black people. But my grandfather deeply believed in helping create opportunities to African-Americans to…

— Mike Espy

I am a lifelong Mississippian. I remember Jim Crow, 'colored' and 'white' water fountains, and my mother's inability to try on a dress in…

— Mike Espy