Jeanne Theoharis
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“There has been a tendency to personify racism in the figure of a working-class white redneck who dislikes Black people and spouts hateful things, as opposed to a middle-or upper-class white person who might decry such hatefulness but still embraces racially unjust policies.”
― A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
― A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
“Many white Northerners wielded their power and voting pressure at home, even as they might have pressed for desegregation in the South, understanding that you didn't need a governor at a schoolhouse door if you had the Board of Education officials constantly readjusting school zoning lines to maintain segregated schools. You didn't need a burning cross if the bank used maps made by the Federal Housing Authority to mark Black neighborhoods as "dangerous" for investment and deny Black people home loans. You didn't need white vigilantes if the police were willing to protect and serve certain communities while containing and controlling others.”
― A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
― A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
“When asked what gave her the strength and commitment to refuse segregation, (Rosa) Parks credited her mother and grandfather "for giving me the spirit of freedom... that I should not feel because of my race or color, inferior to any person. That I should do my very best to be a respectable person, to respect myself, to expect respect from others.”
― The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
― The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
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