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

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

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

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

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.