Answering the call: an autobiography of the modern struggle to end racial discrimination in America

Preface: Why this book?

The call

My early life

Becoming a Civil Rights activist

Family, marriages, and faith

Political solutions to racial tensions

Cutting my teeth as NAACP General Counsel

Desegregation and the road to the North: shifting legal strategies, from Plessy to Sweatt to Brown

Beyond de facto/de jure: the Northern school desegregation cases

The road to the Court

Continuing the struggle, on the bench

Beyond the United States

Beyond the bench

Life after the bench

Justice Clarence Thomas and the Supreme double cross

Obama: election reflections.