Civil rights Quote by Margot Lee Shetterly

My dad worked with Mary Jackson very closely at one point. I knew Katherine Johnson as well. They were all part of this group…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“If Mary had applied for a job as janitor, the doors to the school would swing wide open. As a professional engineer-in-training with a…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“Unhappy with these posts, Jackson was exuberant when he was reassigned as an instructor at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington. On March…

— Charles River Editors

Only whites were allowed by law and practice to attend the University of Mississippi - a public institution supported by public dollars. Anything public…

— James Meredith

Lyndon Johnson wanted to emancipate the whites as much as people of color, because he knew how, particularly in the South, but not only…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

My mom was a teacher. In the 1960s and '70s, she taught history at two largely African American public high schools in Washington, D.C.…

— Brett Kavanaugh

“This link was not coincidental: the movement to create university-level courses for women, still barred from the universities, was an integral part of the…

— Michael David-Fox

“She wrote that she was pretty sure more women and people of color could enroll “without denying to white men of merit a fair…

— Irin Carmon

I talked to Katherine Johnson, and I tried to make it weighty by asking things like, "How as a Black woman did you do…

— Taraji P. Henson

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

At Swarthmore, the Dean of Women was very opposed to women going into science or engineering - so opposed that if she couldn't talk…

— Nancy Roman

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker…

— Dee Dee Myers