I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.