Being Quote by Shelby Steele

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 grew up in a segregated community: I couldn't go to the public schools, beaches, certain parts of town.

— Bryan Stevenson

Back then, as a teenager, I kept thinking, Why don't the adult around here just say something? Say it so they know we don't…

— Claudette Colvin

I grew up in the southern United States in a city which at that time during the late '40's and early '50's was the…

— Angela Davis

For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.

— Maajid Nawaz

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

— Anonymous

There was segregation everywhere. The churches, buses and schools were all segregated and you couldn't even go into the same restaurants.

— Claudette Colvin

I grew up in a time when there was real segregation. And blacks during the 50s and so forth took a lot of responsibility…

— Shelby Steele

When you’re young, your world is pretty limited. My parents, my family, my church dominated my world. And because Birmingham was so segregated, I…

— Condoleezza Rice

I vividly remember segregation - separate schools, sitting in the balcony at the movie theater, being barred from the public swimming pool.

— David Steward

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

— Michael Eric Dyson

I grew up in an area that was the typical city that was a racially divided and economically segregated place. And it had a…

— Ed Kowalczyk