A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

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

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

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

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.