As soon as we arrived, I was warmly welcomed by the Buffalo NAACP and elected to the committee, of which I am still the only white person today, and at the same time appointed to chair the Education Committee. The Buffalo group was less active than those in Little Rock and New Orleans. Conditions were also different from those in the south. This was less about legal racial segregation than about discrimination in job placement and housing, the unequal treatment of blacks and whites by the police, judiciary and authorities, which was much more difficult to tackle.
Source: Wilma and Georg Iggers, Zwei Seiten der Geschichte. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2002, p. 178f (translation)