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

Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

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

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does not vote is failing to serve the cause of freedom - his own freedom, his people's freedom, and his country's freedom.