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

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

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

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.