Eddie R. Cole > Quotes

“NAACP attorneys are often credited as delivering the final blows to Jim Crow. But if these legal juggernauts were the winners in fights before the US Supreme Court, then Black educators were certainly the physical trainers who quietly prepared the NAACP for its greatest victories.”
― Eddie R Cole, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom

“There have been numerous books and scholarly articles written about these watershed moments in US history, but college presidents as a group have not emerged as a focal point. Therefore, it is unsurprising that Edwin D. Harrison is largely unknown despite leading Georgia Tech to become the first Deep South university to desegregate without violence or a court order. He was regularly sought out among southerners for his counsel on how to admit Black students peacefully, but our collective memories have not done the likes of Harrison and other college presidents justice for their roles in shaping how the nation engaged the race question.19”
― Eddie R Cole, The Campus Color Line: College Presidents and the Struggle for Black Freedom