Tavis Smiley Quotes
We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
Smiley, Tavis. The Covenant with Black America. Third World Press, 2006.
Throughout the Jim Crowe era of the South, the Southern whites were the poorest Americans with the exception of the Blacks, with few economic and cultural opportunities compared with the rest of the nation, the schools were the weakest of any area of the nation, the universities behind, and politically even whites had few choices with single party (Democratic Party) rule. While desegregation was fought tooth and nail by most white Southerners, it had the effect of elevating all phases of Southern life go that the gap between the South and the rest of the country diminished considerably. But the Blacks were also freed from the evil system and that was the “price” to the whites to which Baldwin referred.
The Quakers were in the forefront of not only the abolition of slavery but of the integration of the races.
The organization was one of the first organized to agitate against the slave trade. He had organized many of the intellectual leaders of France to join in this effort.
Tavis Smiley is an American talk show host and author. Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana. After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles.
