Care Quote by Marian Wright Edelman

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents,…

— Alice Walker

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end…

— Bryan Stevenson

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into…

— Bryan Stevenson

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown…

— Alice Walker

“While the Reconstruction Era was fraught with corruption and arguably doomed by the lack of land reform, the sweeping economic and political developments in…

— Michelle Alexander

“But where Lincoln’s absent hand was felt most keenly was in race relations. Black codes were passed in state after state across the South—as…

— Jay Winik

“A generation or so after slavery ended, segregationists enacted Jim Crow laws that made it impossible for most blacks to vote in the South.”

— Patricia T. O'Conner

“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 abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

“When a congressional committee reported in February on the Mississippi bloodshed, it concluded that the nation had arrived at a crossroads and “must either…

— Ron Chernow

“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Since 1865, when the [Thirteenth] Amendment was passed, Black men were getting charged, set up, arrested, and convicted for the pettiest of offenses--like child…

— Amy Watkins