In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.