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

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

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

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

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

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

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.