Lamar Jackson Quotes

What are we doing on the plane ride back home? I heard Lamar [Jackson] is leading us in high knees. Ravens flock, let's fly.

I usually eat cereal every morning.

a tragic roster of activists and innocents had died for the crime of being black or supporting blacks in their state. There was Willie Edwards Jr., the truck driver forced off a bridge to his death by four Klansmen in Montgomery. There was William Lewis Moore, the man from Baltimore shot and killed in Attalla while trying to walk a letter denouncing segregation 385 miles to the governor of Mississippi. There were four young girls, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley, killed by the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. There was thirteen-year-old Virgil Lamar Ware, shot to death on the handlebars of his brother’s bicycle in the same city. There was Jimmie Lee Jackson, beaten and shot by state troopers in Marion while he tried to protect his mother and grandfather during a protest. There was the Reverend James Reeb, the Unitarian minister beaten to death in Selma. There was Viola Gregg Liuzzo, shot by Klansmen while trying to ferry marchers between Selma and Montgomery. There was Willie Brewster, shot to death while walking home in Anniston. There was Jonathan Myrick Daniels, a seminarian registering black voters who was arrested for participating in a protest and then shot by a deputy sheriff in Hayneville. There was Samuel Leamon Younge Jr., murdered by a gas station owner after arguing about segregated restrooms.

Free Kodak.

Lamar, Sr. began coaching his son at a young age, throwing the football with him and helping him get faster. By the age of eight, Lamar could outrun many high school track athletes.

The two most reported endeavors to exclude Sicilians and other Italians from white schools both took place in rural Mississippi: the Frier incident in Sumrall, Lamar County, in 1907, and an earlier incident in 1906 Shelby, Bolivar County.

In 1900, 845 Italian-born immigrants lived in Mississippi, a population that nearly tripled to 2,137 by 1910.35 These increasing numbers still represented only a small minority across the state—Italians made up 10 percent of the foreign-born white population in 1900 and 22 percent in 1910.36 And yet, Mississippi’s school disputes both took place in counties with an uncharacteristically and disproportionately large number of Italians: Italians comprised 72 percent of foreign-born whites in Bolivar County and 46 percent in Lamar County.37 Within Mississippi’s racial landscape, where did “inbetween” Sicilians and other Italians reside? More specifically, with the implementation of a binary educational system, where did

Ultimately, southerners only engaged in two sustained efforts to remove Sicilians and other Italians from white schools, both in rural Mississippi: in 1907 in Lamar County, upon which this chapter began, and in 1906 in Bolivar County.

In both rural Bolivar County and Lamar County, local native-born, white community members attempted to exclude Italian children from local schools on the racial premise that Italian schoolchildren were not “white” enough.