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

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.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

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.

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

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