Believe Quote by Oprah Winfrey

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

— Matthew Arnold

“Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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

If you talk to the Whites in Mississippi they will tell you, 'You can go to any school you want to; we don't see…

— Bennie Thompson

My father is from Mississippi, and I heard stories of racial injustice my whole life.

— Omar Benson Miller

The Mississippi of 1920 was an exceptionally dangerous place for Black people. But my grandfather deeply believed in helping create opportunities to African-Americans to…

— Mike Espy

“Mississippi used to be able to do whatever it wanted to do, until the United States found out about it. And now that Mississippi…

— John Pritchard

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

“When a congressional committee reported in February on the Mississippi bloodshed, it concluded that the nation had arrived at a crossroads and “must either…

— Ron Chernow

There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think theyll take care of me.

— James Meredith

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