Nancy Slater

“Besides being driven around Manhattan by a chauffeur whose salary his father’s company paid, in a Cadillac his father’s company leased to “scope out properties,” Donald’s job description seems to have included lying about his “accomplishments” and allegedly refusing to rent apartments to black people (which would become the subject of a Justice Department lawsuit accusing my grandfather and Donald of discrimination).”
― Mary L. Trump, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

“Rice became a national sensation impersonating a crippled black man, but died penniless in 1860 of a paralytic condition that limited his speech and movement by the end of his life.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“But, by the mid-1870s, when the North withdrew its oversight in the face of southern hostility, whites in the South began to resurrect the caste system founded under slavery. Nursing the wounds of defeat and seeking a scapegoat, much like Germany in the years leading up to Nazism, they began to undo the opportunities accorded freed slaves during Reconstruction and to refine the language of white supremacy.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“The families from Selma left in the midst of one of the most divisive eras in American history—the long and violent hangover after the Civil War, when the South, left to its own devices as the North looked away, dismantled the freedoms granted former slaves after the war.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration