King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

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

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

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

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

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