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

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

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.

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

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

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

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.