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.

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

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

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

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

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