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

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

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

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

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.

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.