Constance baker motley

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

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

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

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think.

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.

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

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

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.