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

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

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

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.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

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