Achievement Quote by Michelle Alexander

“Jim Crow dominated the lives of black people in America from 1890 well into the twentieth century. From conception to coffin, there was no…

— Carol Anderson

People talk about Jim Crow as if it's dead. Jim Crow isn't gone. It's adjusted. Look at the disproportionate sentences meted out to blacks…

— Aldis Hodge

Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to…

— Bob Beckel

“The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial caste system…

— Michelle Alexander

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed…

— Opal Tometi

“I have often pointed out to students that the Jim Crow order had a specific and relatively brief life span. It was not completely…

— Adolph L. Reed Jr

The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of…

— Thomas Sowell

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many…

— Rita Dove

I don’t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow…

— Barack Obama

That's one of the biggest losses, I think, to African American families, is that people, once they left, they turned away from the South.…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that academic achievement…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

Jim Crow had unintended benefits. It forced blacks to build and rely on their own economic, educational and social systems.

— Jason Whitlock