Mica

“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

“Having Negroes in the neighborhood would ruin standards, Harry Monet insisted, dragging whites down to the coloreds’ level, degrading everything people up and down the block had worked so hard to achieve.37”
― Kevin G. Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

“I will not allow one prejudiced person or one million or one hundred million to blight my life,” he explained. “I will not let prejudice or any of its attendant humiliations and injustices bear me down to spiritual defeat. My inner life is mine, and I will defend and maintain its integrity against the forces of hell.”3”
― Kevin G. Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

“The ancestors of the negroes came here because they were captured in Africa and brought to America in slave ships, and had been obliged to toil for three hundred years without reward. When they were finally freed from slavery they were lynched in court and out of court, and driven into mean, squalid outskirts and shanties because they were black, or had a drop of negro blood in their bodies somewhere. I realized that defending negroes, even in the north, was no boy’s job, although boys were usually given the responsibility.”3”
― Kevin G. Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age