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.

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

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

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

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