On 9/11, though, attention suddenly switched to the Muslim "problem", and black equality was forgotten.
"You're going to tell us the Gottschalks have black equality at heart?"
The independent churches grew up to accommodate black equality and African traditions.
This overreaching had little effect in Atlanta, a city that needs no history lessons in the struggle for black equality.
We're going to need something to replace the menace of black equality, and we're going to need it fast.
And he was deeply concerned with the battle for black equality.
Harding, however, openly stated that he was not for black social equality in terms of racial mixing or miscegenation.
In churches where the preachers talked about black equality, they sometimes planted charges of dynamite.
The country seems to have settled into a pattern of lurches at black equality every 100 years.
He had come to support black political equality.