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

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

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?

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.

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

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