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

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.

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.

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

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

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

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.