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.

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

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

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

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

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.