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

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

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions.

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.

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.