Kim Coleman Foote > Quotes

“more, but they been steady taking things away since Mancipation. The gov’ment talked about giving us farms and a mule to plow em, but we never got em. They gave our men the right to vote, but here in Dixie, they grandfathered em right on outta it. Then they made those so-called Jim Crow laws that said we couldn’t share they sidewalks, drinking fountains, schools, toilets, or the best seats on the buses and trains. Not even the dirt where they bury they dead—cats and dogs included.”
― Kim Coleman Foote, Coleman Hill