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.

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

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

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.