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

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

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

When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

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.