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

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

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

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

When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

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