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

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

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

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

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

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.

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