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

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

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

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

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

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.