By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

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

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

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.

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

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman