Lerone Bennett Jr. Quote

We hear people say, "We tried integration and it failed." That isn't so. Integration has never been tried in this country. It has not even been defined. What is integration? If you put two, three blacks in an all-white institution, it's not integrated. It requires a complete change in the way you think as an institution. Real integration involves a change in values.


From Studs Terkel, Race (1992)


We hear people say, We tried integration and it failed. That isn't so. Integration has never been tried in this country. It has not even been...

We hear people say, We tried integration and it failed. That isn't so. Integration has never been tried in this country. It has not even been...

We hear people say, We tried integration and it failed. That isn't so. Integration has never been tried in this country. It has not even been...

We hear people say, We tried integration and it failed. That isn't so. Integration has never been tried in this country. It has not even been...