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

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

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

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

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.