Black people Quote by Raphael Warnock

“A generation or so after slavery ended, segregationists enacted Jim Crow laws that made it impossible for most blacks to vote in the South.”

— Patricia T. O'Conner

“Although it is common to think of Jim Crow as an explicitly race-based system, in fact a number of the key policies were officially…

— Michelle Alexander

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end…

— Bryan Stevenson

“Congress also did little to deal with poverty, education, or mounting urban problems. It seemed especially deaf to what was soon to become the…

— James T. Patterson

Liberals say this over and over and over again to hide the actual history, which is why I go through the specifics on the…

— Ann Coulter

“But where Lincoln’s absent hand was felt most keenly was in race relations. Black codes were passed in state after state across the South—as…

— Jay Winik

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation -…

— Bayard Rustin

“More than 2 million people found themselves behind bars at the turn of the twenty-first century, and millions more were relegated to the margins…

— Michelle Alexander

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition…

— Major Owens

“Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation: These bonded white people into a broad aristocracy united by the salient fact of unblackness.”

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism…

— John Henrik Clarke

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