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Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
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... →
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... →
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.