Mica

“Whites learned to have hair-trigger tempers. If a black person caused the slightest offense—anything at all would do—whites felt free to lash out. It was a right slaveholders once had claimed. Now any white person enjoyed the same privilege.61”
― Kevin G. Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

“State law mandated that white and black schools be separate but equal. But white officials across the state starved black schools of funding. Bartow officials were no exception. Although there were almost as many black as white children in Bartow, the town gave Union Academy only half the appropriation they gave to the white grade schools and far less than they gave to the high school.”
― Kevin G. Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age