We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

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

I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman

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