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Feb 26, 2012 · The story of the late judge Constance Baker Motley, a New Haven, Connecticut native who worked as a lawyer with the Legal Defense Fund, argued ten cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and was appointed to the Federal bench by President Lyndon Baines Johnson.
- Michael D. Calia
- 2012-02-26
- Biography
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Ford’s book, Constance Baker Motley: One Woman’s Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law, examined the life and work of Motley. She was the only woman lawyer on the Brown v.
An award-winning biographical documentary, Justice is a Black Woman: The Life and Work of Constance Baker Motley, was broadcast on Connecticut Public Television in 2012. A documentary short, The Trials of Constance Baker Motley, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 19, 2015.
Feb 3, 2022 · Constance Baker Motley's life—as a lawyer, as a politician and the first Black woman appointed to the Federal bench – is outlined in a new biography by author Tomiko Brown-Nagin: Civil Rights...
Feb 20, 2020 · From the late 1940s through the mid-1960s, Constance Baker Motley did as much as any American to end racial segregation. Yet her memory has receded outside the federal Judiciary, where she became the first African American woman judge. Here is her remarkable story.
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Mar 31, 2023 · 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.
The pathbreaking lawyer and “Civil Rights Queen” was the first Black woman to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court
