Army Quote by Malcolm X

“It was nineteen fifty seven, the Little Rock nine were escorted to school by Federal troops under the order of President Eisenhower to counteract…

— Sara Niles

I believe, the NAACP began to try to organize parents of Negro children to file petitions with the boards of education regarding the integration…

— Ella Baker

“The opposition to Negro education in the South was at first bitter, and showed itself in ashes, insult, and blood; for the South believed…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“THE SUMMER OF 1863 marked a crucial transformation in the Union war effort—the organization and deployment of black regiments that would eventually amount to…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

After the Civil War, Black Mississippians had economic power, voting rights, and citizenship. They used their majority to elect African-Americans to office up and…

— Mike Espy

“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

“The fact remains that women and children were left vulnerable to sickness and disease, manipulative slaveholders, and even apathetic Union officers during the Civil…

— Jim Downs

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

I looked on the television the other night and saw them beating a Negro unmercifully in Mississippi. And this is the result of a…

— Malcolm X

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

We could get more action in the South because the Negroes had a feeling that they were being oppressed. But you take New York,…

— Thurgood Marshall

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

— Gil Scott-Heron