I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.