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

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

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

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.