Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

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 legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

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.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

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