Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

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.

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

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

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.