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.

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

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

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

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

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