"Mary Frances Berry" is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania and the former chairwoman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She is also the former board chair of Pacifica Radio. She is a past president of the Organization of American Historians, the primary professional organization for historians of the United States.

At Penn, Berry teaches American legal history. Before coming to Penn, Berry was Provost (education)/provost of the College of Behavioral and Social Science at University of Maryland, College Park, and chancellor of the University of Colorado at Boulder. She received Ph.D. and Juris Doctor/J.D. degrees from the University of Michigan.

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Glue that holds all these things together.

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Then we can say at least the civil rights community tried to alert you.

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What historians will look at is her contributions in these other things. Historians will understand and explore the full dimensions and not just the perfectly made up, dignified widow.

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Everywhere, African-Americans were stopped far out of their proportion in any of the communities policed, ... So were Hispanics, but at somewhat reduced levels.

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Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

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The time when you need to do something is when no one else is willing to do it, when people are saying it can't be done.

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When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

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It's going to be impossible to defeat him unless he turns out to be an ax murderer and there's been no evidence of that presented, ... It's up to the civil rights groups to make the best case they can make.

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The (state) constitution gives the overall authority for elections like everything else to the governor.

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