My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.
When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.