The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 becaThe legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders… — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around… — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
A Negro who does not vote is ungrateful to those who have already died in the fight for freedom. ... Any person who does… — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Whites would rather not be involved in race matters, I think. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks? — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
