Black Borne Quotes

“I couldn’t press upon this eager young woman that down in the South, the states didn’t recognize federal law. They took the law into their own hands and called it states’ rights. Black people were beaten into submission by domestic terrorists just as evil as those labeled international terrorists decades later.”
― L.L. Farmer, Black Borne

“How do you explain to a child of New York, a student at Howard University, what it would be like down in Mississippi? Mississippi had defied every federal law, denied blacks of every right the Courts had promised them. Mississippians murdered their black citizens under the sun and in the cover of darkness.”
― L.L. Farmer, Black Borne