Labor Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

Lyndon Johnson wanted to emancipate the whites as much as people of color, because he knew how, particularly in the South, but not only…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

“On February 7, President Johnson met at the White House with five black leaders, including Frederick Douglass, who came to lobby for a civil…

— Ron Chernow

“Not a single Southern legislature stood ready to admit a Negro, under any conditions, to the polls; not a single Southern legislature believed free…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

— Ida B. Wells

[Lyndon ] Johnson was responding to a black freedom movement that was tearing the country open and he did what he had to do…

— Bill Ayers

“The abolition of slavery, apart from preservation of the Union, was the most important result of our Civil War. But the transition was badly…

— William Silverman

“The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and…

— Ulysses S. Grant

Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.

— Stephen Ambrose

Like the amazing story of Anthony Johnson. This man was a slave, then became free, accumulated 250 acres, and even had his own slave,…

— Henry Louis Gates

“Grant deserves an honored place in American history, second only to Lincoln for what he did for the freed slaves. He got the big…

— Ron Chernow

Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose…

— Malcolm X

“It was well understood that if by the teaching of history the white man could be further assured of his superiority and the Negro…

— Carter G. Woodson