"When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad." — Constance Baker Motley

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

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

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

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.