The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

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

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

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

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

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.