My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

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

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

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

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.

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.