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

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

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

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

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

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

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