peanut-gallery

Updated: May 8, 2025

Negroes would look out of place, out of status, in the dress circle or the grand-stand; their place, signifying their status, is the peanut-gallery, or the bleachers. There, neither they nor others will be tempted to forget that as things are they must continue.

Various - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue