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

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

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.

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

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

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.