Car Quote by Nicole Beharie

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.

— George Takei

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.

— Mitt Romney

I ran into Ku Klux Klan and the threat of hurricanes, and those two things made me decide not to build on the Alabama…

— Shelby Foote

I was born in the late '70s and grew up in the deep South, and I was very much still of an era where…

— Nate Powell

It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“It was 1970, and America was scarred by racial violence. Civil rights leaders had been gunned down in the streets, and communities across the…

— Julia Scheeres

My father acted as the Illinois Branch president of the NAACP and so we spent a lot of time in the marches and the…

— Lucy McBath

“By 1872, under Grant’s leadership, the Ku Klux Klan had been smashed in the South. (Its later twentieth-century incarnation had no connection to the…

— Ron Chernow

I was two in 1936. I can remember the blackshirts marches - my father marched against Mosley - it was such a vivid period.

— Jean Marsh

I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew…

— Dee Rees

My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me…

— Debi Mazar

“BY THE HUNDREDS, blacks cleared out of Groveland on the backs of citrus trucks. Others took blankets, food, and water and fled with their…

— Gilbert King