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

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

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.

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

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

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.