At first, wealthy whites saw it as an opportunity to gain independence from France.

The whites in the Western states, especially California, could see the handwriting on the wall.

It remains an incident where blacks and whites, for the most part, see different worlds.

Many whites, though, see things spiraling rapidly out of control.

"The whites see that too much growth has taken place and many blacks see they have not benefited from development."

The whites can't see him because he's a black man lying in the dark on a black heap of coal.

When the whites saw how really top notch Negroes could be, they would change their minds and not one second sooner.

But many whites see an opportunity to restore a broken city they fled decades ago.

Why did blacks and whites see it so differently?

Most whites saw little need for African American education, especially higher education.