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.

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

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

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