Back Quote by Mike Espy

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?

— Muddy Waters

I was raised by people who, like my father, came out of the Jim Crow South because Michigan was the place that people immigrated…

— John E. James

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew.…

— Sam Donaldson

I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

— Charley Pride

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

— Patty Jenkins

I am a lifelong Mississippian. I remember Jim Crow, 'colored' and 'white' water fountains, and my mother's inability to try on a dress in…

— Mike Espy

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

I grew up in Mississippi. I was there for 13 years, and then when I turned 13, I moved out to L.A.

— Israel Broussard

It was a culture shock at first, moving from Michigan to Mississippi. But it ended up being the best decision I ever made.

— Devin Booker

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

Even after Jim Crow was supposed to not be a part of the South anymore, there were still ways in which you couldn't get…

— Jacqueline Woodson

I grew up hearing my parents' stories about how they had to fight for their right to vote in the Jim Crow South.

— Stacey Abrams