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

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

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

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

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

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea