The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

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.

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

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

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

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

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