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Desegregation Quotes

“Let's raise our children together: let them ride the same school buses, learn the same history, swing in the same playgrounds, pedal their bikes down the same streets, share their same city. Then we shall see face to face. Halleluiah.”

Children Poetry Poem Unity Desegregation

Book:How to Love a Country

Source: How to Love a Country

“Today Birmingham is by no means miraculously desegregated. There is still resistance and violence. The last-ditch struggle of a segregationist governor still soils the pages of current events and it is still necessary for a harried president to invoke his highest powers so that a Negro child may go to school with a white child in Birmingham. But these factors only serve to emphasize the truth that even the segregationists know: The system to which they have been committed lies on its deathbed. The only imponderable is the question of how costly they will make the funeral.”

Violence Resistance African Americans Blacks Segregation Birmingham Desegregation

Book:Why We Can't Wait

Source: Why We Can't Wait

“A Thought: Can we stop showing Black and White pictures of the entire decade of the 1960s so people stop thinking it was 1000 years ago. I'm two years younger than the Civil Rights movement. And Ruby Bridges lives down the street from me and is on Instagram. (8/1/2020 on Twitter)”

Art History American History Black Lives Matter Us History Photographs Desegregation Ruby Bridges Cilil Rights Movements

Author:Hannah Beachler

“Narratives of racial exceptionality obscure the reality of ongoing institutional white control while reinforcing ideologies of individualism and meritocracy. They also do whites a disservice by obscuring the white allies behind the scenes who worked hard and long to open the field. These allies could serve as much-needed role models for other whites.”

Racism Allies Meritocracy Exceptionalism Racial Equality Exceptionality Desegregation

Book:What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy

Source: What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy