Back together Quote by Wynton Marsalis

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

“American slavery at its beginnings—obscure, distant, and tragic—is probably for most people a less attractive point of focus than the story of the discovery…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own…

— Henry Louis Gates

It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery…

— Gerald Horne

There's a really great documentary called 'Many Rivers,' which documents the totality of slavery from its inception, and then it gives you a little…

— Aldis Hodge

Part of the reason why we're only now reaching a point in American society where we can talk about the need for truth and…

— Bryan Stevenson

The story of emancipation, going really back to the founding of the country all the way to the civil war is very much the…

— Jamelle Bouie

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the…

— Jeff Sessions

The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period…

— Jim Webb

We started America with the sin of slavery that led right into the post-reconstruction period which was the greatest period of domestic terrorism in…

— Cory Booker

The president who did the most for black Americans in 20th century history was Lyndon Johnson, and he got his hands dirty by dealing…

— Steve Inskeep

Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American…

— David Swanson