King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
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.
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.
Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
