West of Jim Crow Quotes

“In spite of the interventions of the black press, the antilynching movement, and U.S. popular culture, memories of the San Jose lynching, and the robust protest movement that followed, have disappeared. But this erasure is no anomaly: The desire to keep lynching a secret is a national pastime, and the impetus to forget is overwhelming.”
― Lynn M. Hudson, West of Jim Crow: The Fight against California's Color Line

“We have much to learn from women like Ruby McKnight Williams, who studied the California color line and devised ways to resist it, only to see it materialize somewhere else in another form.”
― Lynn M. Hudson, West of Jim Crow: The Fight against California's Color Line