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

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

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.

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

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

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