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

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

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

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

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.

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

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