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Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
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I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
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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.
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I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
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I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
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The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
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The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
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There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
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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.
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Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.
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Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
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There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
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The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
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My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
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