Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

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.

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

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

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.