Blessed Quote by Michael Tubbs

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

— Kamala Harris

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a…

— Yaya DaCosta

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

— Amber Hollibaugh

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as…

— Janis Ian

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I…

— Terri Sewell

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Too Short

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream."…

— Andrew Aydin

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

— Maya Wiley

My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

— Killer Mike

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