In the United States, the Supreme Court's decision of 1954, outlawing segregation in school systems, was greeted with mixed feelings of hope and skepticism by African-Americans.
John Henrik ClarkeYou walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.
John Henrik ClarkeThe one thing you never integrate at the ruin of your own pleasure is your institutions.
John Henrik ClarkeIn the closing years of the nineteenth century, African-American historians began to look at their people's history from their vantage point and their point of view.
John Henrik Clarke