I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

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

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

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

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

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

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.