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

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

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

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman

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

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

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