Charlotte Hawkins Brown wrote in the 1930s “I have had to accept segregation because my people who need what I have to give live in larger numbers in the land of segregated ideals. Buy my philosophy is that position or place can never segregate mind or soul. I sit in a Jim Crow Car, but my mind keeps company with the kings and queens I have known.”
This is from an exhibit at the American History Museum in Washington, D.C.