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.

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

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

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

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.