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Mar 31, 2023 · News From Columbia Law. Story Archive. Celebrating the Life of Constance Baker Motley ’46. A pioneering civil rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund who argued 10 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, Motley was the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge.
One of LDF’s first female attorneys, Constance Baker Motley wrote the original complaint in Brown v. Board of Education and pioneered the legal campaigns for several seminal school desegregation cases. She was the first Black woman to argue before the Supreme Court and went on to win nine out of ten cases.
Feb 3, 2022 · The arc of Motley's life—as a lawyer, as a politician and eventually as the first Black woman to be appointed to the Federal bench – is outlined in a new biography, Civil Rights Queen:...
Mar 1, 2023 · Constance Baker Motley was the first African American woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court, and the first to serve as a federal judge. For all her achievements, Motley’s most-lasting legacy may be the generations of women she inspired to pursue careers in the law.
Feb 16, 2022 · This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Today, we're going to hear about a woman whose biographer says belongs in the pantheon of great American leaders. And the lack of attention she's received is a...
Jan 26, 2022 · In a televised round table in 1961, the civil rights lawyer Constance Baker Motley tried to coax Malcolm into acknowledging that the average Black American “is substantially better off than...
Constance Baker Motley. Portrait by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. "When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights." Constance Baker Motley (1921–2005) Jurist. Law 1946. LLD 2003 (hon.) Over fifty-plus years as a jurist, Constance Baker Motley has had a major impact on ending racial discrimination.
