Children Quote by Roy Wilkins

I had developed a specifically calculated plan to break the system of white supremacy. My theory was that since Mississippi was the place, this…

— James Meredith

If you're going to get elected to anything in Mississippi, you have to pay attention to and court the black vote.

— 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

You gotta understand, the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States...Now that has been a very difficult story…

— James Meredith

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods

— Matthew Arnold

We have to create a coalition of black voters and white voters all over Mississippi who believe in vision of a more modern Mississippi.

— Mike Espy

“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

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

— Paul Robeson

The racial dynamics over here are fraught. White supremacy is overt. It's the reason I don't want to raise my kids here.

— Jodie Turner-Smith

I used to question this for years - what did our kids actually fight for? They would go in the service and go through…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

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

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The time for running has come to an end. You tell them white folk in Mississippi that all the scared niggers are dead!

— Stokely Carmichael