Being bullied Quote by Pam Grier

My grandfather had asked me many times whether I'd like to come to South Carolina with him. He wanted to introduce me to our…

— John Edgar Wideman

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

We were segregated throughout the community, and it was pretty brutal, actually. It didn't appear to be, on the surface.People got along and we…

— Jeff Sessions

In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for…

— Assata Shakur

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

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“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

“Within half a century after Butler sent Charles Mallory away from Fortress Monroe empty-handed, the children of white Union and Confederate soldiers united against…

— Edward E. Baptist

Lynching is an important aspect of racial history and racial inequality in America, because it was visible, it was so public, it was so…

— Bryan Stevenson

I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling.

— Bruce Springsteen

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

— Stanley Crouch

I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings…

— Ben Stein

“Terrorism carried the day. Federal troops withdrew from the South in 1877. The dream of Reconstruction died. For the next century, political violence was…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates