The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history – the era of integration – in 1954.

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

The women’s rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.

Today’s white majority is largely silent about the race question.

By 1962, King had become, by the media’s reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea.

We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women’s revolution will take us.