Black Quote by Ruby Bridges

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

— Jay Blades

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

Fifty-four years ago, I was an 8-year-old boy living in rural Kentucky when the schools were desegregated. I walked into a white school where…

— Dwane Casey

I grew up in the era of the desegregation program. I actually got bussed to a predominately white high school. I didn't have a…

— Herm Edwards

I went to an all-white school in high school.

— Bradley Beal

In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and…

— Natasha Trethewey

I grew up on the Eastern Shore during desegregation. A lot of white parents chose to send their kids to private schools rather than…

— Ralph Northam

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

So, I was in a segregated, all black, public elementary school until fourth grade, until my father died. And that's when my mother transferred…

— Maya Wiley

I know I'm going back some decades, but I'll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few Black kids in a predominantly…

— Jonathan Capehart

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

— Michael Eric Dyson