Civil rights leaders from Rosa Parks to Hank Aaron discuss their personal experience and the black experience in this collection of interviews. Here are their insights on self-respect and excellence, apathy and activism, racism in the courts and racism in sports, the FBI and Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, potential black presidents, blacks and suicide, black students on white campuses, the Bakke decision, personal plans and victories, the relationship between black men and woman, and priorities for the future. These interviews, here accompanied by brief biographies, were recorded at Central State University and shown on the television series, Like It Is.--From publisher description.