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

When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

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

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

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

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

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