Alex Quote by Manning Marable

“Walker identified and decried America’s favorite racist pastime: denying Blacks access to education and jobs and then calling their resultant impoverished state “natural.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

[Alex] Haley felt he could make a solid case in favor of racial integration by showing what was - to white America - what…

— Manning Marable

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a very savvy character. His drinking and carousing, his charisma and intelligence... the things he did in Congress. He…

— Ron Cephas Jones

“The growing spirit of kindliness and reconciliation between the North and South after the frightful differences of a generation ago ought to be a…

— W.E.B. DuBois

[Alex Haley] objective was to illustrate that the racial separatism of the N.O.I. was a kind of pathological or a kind of - it…

— Manning Marable

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and…

— Malcolm X

What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named Alfred Balk…

— Manning Marable

“But there was a more recent author and public figure whose work spoke to the core of a new set of issues I was…

— Anonymous

“culturally conservative black Americans who are convinced that integration, and to some extent the entire liberal dream, robbed them of their natural defenses.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

But he [Franklin Roosevelt] specifically prohibits any black participation from the Deep South, something which just infuriates people who'd been his supporters and who'd…

— Geoffrey Cowan

The true Negro does not want integration... He realizes his potential is far better among his own race.

— Jerry Falwell

“The irony of Barack Obama is this: He has become the most successful black politician in American history by avoiding the radioactive racial issues…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates