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

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.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

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

My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.