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Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

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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.

Constance Baker Motley

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

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All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

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

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How long must the American community afford special treatment to 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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My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.

Constance Baker Motley

The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.

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

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We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.

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

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

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

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

Constance Baker Motley