“Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.” DoeProblemPoliticalImaginationLevelsGoneImagineSeeingRacismLet MeImagine ThatArena Author:Phylicia Rashad
“The blind spot for the in the Southern Progressive Movement - as for that matter in the national [progressive] movement - was the Negro, for the whole movement in the South coincided paradoxically with the crest of the wave of racism. Still more important to the association of the two movements was the fact that their leaders were often identical. In fact, the typical Progressive reformer rode to power in the South on a disenfranchising or white-supremacy movement.” StillsTwoImportantMatterPhilosophyWholeFactsPoliticalWhiteLeaderMovementRacismBlindSouthWaveSpotsClassicProgressiveSouthernAssociationTypicalWhite SupremacyPolitical PhilosophyIdenticalSupremacyReformersBlind SpotsProgressive Movement Author:C. Vann Woodward