"Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi ..." — Constance Baker Motley

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

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.

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.