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

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.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

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

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

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

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