The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.
