New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

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

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

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

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

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

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