Administrative Quote by Montel Williams

There wasn't much white people would allow us to do in those days. You could be a schoolteacher or an athlete to get away…

— Hank Aaron

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime,…

— Lee De Forest

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the…

— Kathryn Stockett

“By the early ’70s it would have appeared unthinkable to contemplate unraveling the social services, welfare provisions, state-funded cultural and educational resources and much…

— Tony Judt

I remember being a teenager, I never thought that I'd live in a society that was not segregated. It happened.

— Shelby Steele

That white uniform was her 'pass' to get into white places with us - the grocery store, the state fair, the movies. Even though…

— Kathryn Stockett

As a white man who has had privileges that others could not depend on or take for granted, I've clearly had advantages over the…

— Beto O'Rourke

“Racist intentions—not policies—became covert after the 1960s.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

While I was able to pass as white as soon as I came to America, this was not really possible while I was growing…

— Lexi Alexander

I was no stranger to racism. Having grown up a black person in the '60s and '70s, I knew that prejudice was common.

— Daryl Davis

I grew up on the Eastern Shore during desegregation. A lot of white parents chose to send their kids to private schools rather than…

— Ralph Northam

I grew up in the era of the desegregation program. I actually got bussed to a predominately white high school. I didn't have a…

— Herm Edwards