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

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

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

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.