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

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

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

When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

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