Appearances Quote by Nina Turner

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could…

— Jon Meacham

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

The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

— Myrlie Evers-Williams

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

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

“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

The extraordinary nature of individual black achievement in formerly white domain certainly does suggest that the old Jim Crow is dead, but it doesn't…

— Michelle Alexander

We have defeated Jim Crow, but now we have to deal with his son, James Crow Jr., esquire.

— Al Sharpton

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

“The reality was that Jim Crow filtered through the economy, north and south, and pressed down on poor and working-class people of all races.”

— Isabel Wilkerson