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.

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.

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

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

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

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