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

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

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

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