"I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that in..." — 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 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.

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.