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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
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.
Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
