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.

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.

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

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.

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.