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

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

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.

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

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

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.