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

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

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

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.

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