Black Quote by Ron Stallworth

I was one of the first three black students to go to an all-white school in Tennessee.

— Gil Scott-Heron

I went to a predominantly African-American school. I didn't even understand our immigration system. I knew my parents immigrated here.

— Rashida Tlaib

My dad is black and my mom is white. It was not in vogue to be an interracial couple in the 1970s in South…

— Will Hurd

I spent some special years in my hometown of El Paso.

— Debbie Reynolds

I just grew up a poor black kid in Alabama with a single mom and two brothers.

— Charles Barkley

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

— Maya Wiley

I went to a school that was predominantly white, and I was one of the first wave of black kids.

— Jay Blades

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into…

— Bryan Stevenson

I was the first black child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana in 1960.

— Ruby Bridges

The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family.

— Courtney A. Kemp

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history…

— Chris Rock