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Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
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King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian.
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King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
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My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.
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In my view, I did not get to the federal bench because I was a woman.
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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
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All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
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Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.
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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.
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The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
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The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
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When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
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We African Americans have now spent the major part of the 20th Century battling racism.
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I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.
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Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.
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