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

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

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

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

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

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

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.