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

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Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.

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

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

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The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

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King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

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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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I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

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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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When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

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