Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.