Father Quote by John E. James

As a teenager growing up during Jim Crow, all I wanted to do was leave Mississippi. But I came back and raised my own…

— Mike Espy

The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Growing up in Michigan was fine...until I realized where I was.

— Lily Tomlin

I grew up hearing my parents' stories about how they had to fight for their right to vote in the Jim Crow South.

— Stacey Abrams

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

I come from a family that raised me with good southern values.

— Lara Trump

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many…

— Rita Dove

Michigan was the place that people used to move to from all around the world.

— Gretchen Whitmer

I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.

— Jerome Bettis

I grew up in a small segregated steel town 6o miles outside of Cleveland, my parents grew up in the segregated south. As a…

— Lori Lightfoot

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

— Jerry Falwell

I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.

— Kevin Young