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In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.
King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.
Too many whites still see blacks as a group apart.
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
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