When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.
Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
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.
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.