Black power Quote by Jane Mayer

Because my college was a local college, it had a historic role in educating minorities and the tuition increase was viewed as an obstacle…

— Lewis Schiff

In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

— Constance Baker Motley

I was a member of the Black Student Union, part of the central committee at San Francisco State. During the 1968 strike there, I…

— Danny Glover

As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management…

— William Allen White

The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike began as…

— Danny Glover

If you're a black woman at an Ivy League school, there is no free speech for me because they're already pissed that I'm there.

— Anthea Butler

“Another Harvard research project concluded bluntly that by 2004, American schools were just as segregated as they were in 1969, the year after Martin…

— Jared Taylor

Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“We were three hours from Chicago, so my blackness was less of a curiosity, more of a threat. And there were the black students…

— Roxane Gay

“Regrettably, I paid far less attention to all those students less able to overcome the hostility and the sense of alienation they faced in…

— Derrick Bell

“Terrorism carried the day. Federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877. The dream of Reconstruction died. For the next century, political violence was…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates