Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
Constance Baker Motley
life
I rejected the notion that my race or sex would bar my success in life.
race life success
I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
legal change
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.
thetimes time
We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.
history
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
society
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
action
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
women men
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
women rights
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
women revolution
How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
community
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.
rights chance trials
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
environment nations
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 to be the most difficult of professions.
legal race
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