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

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.

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

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

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.

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.