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

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

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

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

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

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

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