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.
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
