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When I was growing up, our nation was partitioned: Blacks were segregated by law in the South and largely by custom in the North, though it, too, had segregation laws. Our best universities had quota systems. Many white communities had real estate covenants to keep nonwhites out.
Donna Brazile
Best
Law
Real Estate
Nation
White
Too
Our
Though
Out
Systems
Blacks
Laws
Segregated
Segregation
Had
Real
Were
South
Up
North
Estate
Quota
Custom
Communities
Many
Growing
Keep
Growing Up
Largely
Universities
Students of color who attended integrated schools in the decades immediately following Brown were more likely to graduate high school, go to college, earn higher wages, live healthier lifestyles, and not have a criminal record than their peers in segregated schools.
Donna Brazile
School
College
Live
Earn
Criminal
Peers
Immediately
High
Record
High School
Following
Brown
More
Segregated
Color
Higher
Lifestyles
Students
Attended
Likely
Schools
Healthier
Wages
Go
Were
Integrated
Than
Decades
Graduate
Who
There was segregated unions, which was a real problem for me because - especially as I was working in the recording scene, I had flack from the white union for hiring black musicians. I had flack from the black musician by hiring white musicians.
Dr. John
Me
Musicians
Problem
Black
Recording
White
Unions
Musician
Scene
Segregated
Had
Because
Real
Hiring
Real Problem
Which
Working
Union
I can think of no one that my grandparents knew, that told me stories and that I experienced myself, had any sense of social inferiority growing up in segregated Washington. None whatsoever.
Ed Smith
Myself
Me
Inferiority
Sense
Think
Segregated
Had
No-One
Knew
None
Up
Whatsoever
Any
Experienced
Stories
Social
Grandparents
Washington
Growing
Growing Up
I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.
Edward Brooke
Feeling
Out
Segregated
Up
Being
Grew
Anything
Much
Shut
I went to Dunbar High School, recognized as the best high school of the segregated era. The education enabled students from Dunbar to attend the best colleges and universities in the country.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Education
Best
School
Country
Recognized
High
High School
Colleges
Segregated
Students
Attend
Era
Universities
Growing up in Georgia, it was sort of the last place to jump on the bandwagon of the integrated frontier. I have aunts and uncles and grandparents that experienced the 'whites only' and segregated schools.
Elijah Kelley
Only
Segregated
Uncles
Schools
Sort
Integrated
Aunts
Georgia
Up
Jump
Bandwagon
Frontier
Experienced
Place
Grandparents
Whites
Growing
Growing Up
Last
My mother was from Mississippi, or is from 'Mississippi;' my father was from Alabama. He speaks about conditions in Mississippi and Alabama. They were really the poster children for the bad public laws that segregated, according to race, in our country.
Faye Wattleton
Mother
Father
Country
Our
Bad
Poster
About
Laws
Segregated
He
Mississippi
Were
Conditions
According
Children
Public
Race
Really
Speaks
Alabama
A segregated spiritual subculture does women no good, even if it does have adorable butterflies in the logo.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
Good
Spiritual
Women
Adorable
Segregated
Does
Subculture
Even
Butterflies
For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.
Hank Aaron
You
Segregated
Robinson
Years
Expect
Jackie
Jackie Robinson
Just
After
Anything
Us
Really
Meant
Many
Even
Baseball
Chance
During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
Irvin D. Yalom
Life
Library
Black
Made
Bicycle
Reading
Trek
Seventh
Neighborhood
City
Segregated
Week
Hazardous
Supplies
Indoor
Perilous
Up
Stock
Often
Refuge
Childhood
Central
Midst
Poor
Washington
Lived
Twice
Twice A Week
Streets
I don't know if it's because I grew up in Beverly or my friends, but I listened to a lot of alternative rock music. I loved Incubus, Weezer and Jimmy Eat World. It almost felt segregated because I loved all of those acts over here, but then I also loved R&B and soul music I grew up with.
Jamila Woods
Music
Soul
World
Jimmy
Those
Eat
Segregated
Almost
Beverly
Over
Know
Also
Alternative
Because
Felt
Soul Music
Rock
Rock Music
Lot
Up
Friends
Listened
Grew
Loved
Then
Acts
Here
Although his crusade in 1957 occurred at a time in our nation's history when race divided all, Reverend Graham refused to preach in segregated audiences.
Jerry Moran
Time
History
Nation
Preach
Our
Segregated
Divided
Crusade
Although
Audiences
Occurred
Reverend
His
Refused
Graham
Race
Growing up in Augusta in such a protected and loving community is something that I really enjoy talking about. I love talking about - even though I grew up, of course, in the time of segregated schools: Brown vs. Board of Education came along after I was already in first grade.
Jessye Norman
Love
Education
Time
First
Community
Enjoy
Though
About
Brown
Something
Segregated
Along
First Grade
Protected
Schools
Talking
Course
Came
Up
Grade
Grew
After
Board
Loving
Really
Even
Growing
Growing Up
This is how a revolution begins. It begins when someone grows tired of standing idly by, waiting for history's arc to bend toward justice, and instead decides to give it a swift shove. It begins when a black seamstress named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in the segregated South.
Jo Becker
Tired
History
Man
Justice
Waiting
Black
Revolution
White
Bend
Arc
Someone
Give
Segregated
Parks
Instead
Toward
Named
How
Idly
South
Up
Begins
Refuses
Decide
Bus
Rosa
Rosa Parks
Shove
Standing
Swift
Seat
Grows
Her
People in Medicaid ought to have access to the same insurance as the rest of the population. If they are segregated, it will be a poor plan for poor people.
John Goodman
People
Will
Rest
Ought
Segregated
Access
Insurance
Same
Poor
Plan
Poor People
Population
Medicaid
We have this film that we hope to finance, it's called 'Southern Rights.' It's a documentary about segregated proms that are still happening in the South of America. So there's a black prom and a white prom, so we hope to finance a film soon about that.
John Legend
Finance
Hope
Rights
Black
White
Prom
About
Segregated
Soon
Documentary
Still
South
Southern
America
Happening
Film
I think a lot of people don't have any idea of how deeply segregated our schools have become all over again. Most textbooks are not honest in what they teach our high school students.
Jonathan Kozol
People
School
Become
Think
Our
High
High School
High School Students
Segregated
Students
Idea
Over
Most
Schools
How
Lot
Textbooks
Any
Again
Teach
Deeply
Honest
At present, black children are more segregated in their public schools than at any time since 1968. In the inner-city schools I visit, minority children typically represent 95 percent to 99 percent of class enrollment.
Jonathan Kozol
Time
Class
Black
Minority
Public Schools
Enrollment
Visit
Percent
More
Segregated
Since
Schools
Than
Any
Represent
Children
Public
Present
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
Karl Marlantes
War
Time
World
First
Depend
Military
Other
Easy
Segregated
Had
First Time
Were
Integration
American
Different
Happened
Races
Vietnam
Each
Second
World War
Second World War
As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.
Kelis
Music
You
Black
Segregated
Know
How
America
Goes
Artist
As Far As
Far
Radio
Position
You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.
Lance Reddick
Music
You
Black
Stars
Music Industry
See
Cross
Segregated
Tends
Over
Industry
Rock
Stylistically
Rock Music
Rock Stars
Lot
Artist
Hard
My mother was born into a segregated America. How crazy is that?
Lena Waithe
Crazy
Mother
Born
Segregated
How
America
It's true that not every day a little black girl in a low-income family from a segregated steel town makes the runoff to be the mayor of the third-largest city in America.
Lori Lightfoot
Day
Family
Every Day
Black
Girl
Every
City
Segregated
Steel
True
Town
Makes
America
Mayor
Little
Low-Income
Chicago's one of the most segregated cities in America. Everybody lives in their own silos and vacuums.
Luvvie Ajayi
Own
Everybody
Cities
Segregated
Most
Chicago
America
Lives
Before I came to Milwaukee, I'd heard the city was the most segregated in the country. I'd heard it was racist. When I got here, it was extremely segregated. I've never lived in a city this segregated.
Malcolm Brogdon
Country
Before
Extremely
City
Segregated
Never
Most
Got
Came
Heard
Lived
Here
Milwaukee
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