Summary
"Well, I never had any real desire to be a civil rights leader," [Robert L. Carter] has said on a number of occasions and implied to [Derrick Bell]. "What I wanted to become was a good civil rights lawyer, that's all."
In his conversation with Judge Carter, Bell touched on a number of salient points covered in Carter's memoir, "A Matter of Law" (The New Press, 2005), disclosing that Carter's activism was nurtured when he was a student growing up in Newark, N.J. He spearheaded the integration of a local swimming pool, "and I couldn't even swim," he laughed.When Bell, while reciting a portion of one of Carter's opinions, used the term "white superiority," he corrected the professor. "That should be white supremacy," the judge said.See the full content of this document
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Judge Robert Carter Full of Wit and Wisdom
At 88, Judge Robert L. Carter does not hear as well as he used to and his steps are aided and abetted by a cane, but time has not dulled his memory or curbed his often acerbic wit.
During a...See the full content of this document
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