Anthony Tilghman

“Chicago complained of being invaded by Southern hillbillies, as the national publication Harper’s documented in 1958: “The city’s toughest integration problem has nothing to do with the Negroes…. It involves a small army of white Protestant, Early American migrants from the South—who are usually proud, poor, primitive, and fast with a knife.”78 Like white trash, hillbillies were seen by white Northerners as embodying characteristics that had been exclusively associated with blacks.”
― Shannon Sullivan, Good White People: The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism

“McComb became popularly known as the “bombing capital of the world” in 1964.89 There were twelve bombings of homes, churches, and businesses in the Black community of McComb between June 22nd and August 12th.”
― Akinyele Omowale Umoja, We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement

“When Dinesh D’Souza writes, “the behavior of the African American underclass…flagrantly violates and scandalizes basic codes of responsibility, decency, and civility,” he is deploying class racism.”
― Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Antiracist

“McComb became popularly known as the “bombing capital of the world” in 1964.89 There were twelve bombings of homes, churches, and businesses in the Black community of McComb between June 22nd and August 12th. The perpetrators of the rash of bombing were the local Klavern of the United Klans of America.”
― Akinyele Omowale Umoja, We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement