We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

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.

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

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

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.