My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

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

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.

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

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

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

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.