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

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

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.

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

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism

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

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