Background
Motley, Constance Baker was born on September 14, 1921 in New Haven. Daughter of Willoughby Alva and Rachel (Huggins) Baker.
( This wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of t...)
This wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the fight to implement it-and its implications for affirmative action and black poverty today. A black woman who moved in the corridors of power in the middle of this century, Constance Baker Motley has been a pioneer in both black civil rights and women's rights. As the key attorney assisting Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, she argued a dozen cases before the Supreme Court (winning all but one), and her representation of James Meredith in his bid to enroll in the University of Mississippi made her famous. Subsequently, as Manhattan borough president and a U.S. district court judge, she has fulfilled the highest aspirations of our legal and political system. This book, the most detailed account to date of the legal conflicts of the civil rights movement, is also an account of Motley's struggle, as a black woman, to succeed, a record of a life lived with great courage and responsibility.
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Motley, Constance Baker was born on September 14, 1921 in New Haven. Daughter of Willoughby Alva and Rachel (Huggins) Baker.
Attended, Fisk University, Nashville. AB, New York University, 1943. Bachelor of Laws, Columbia Law School, 1946.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Columbia Law School, 2003.
Member Legal, Defense and Ednl. Fund, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1945-1965; member, New York State Senate, 1964-1965; president, Manhattan Borough, 1965-1966; United States district judge, Southern District New York, 1966-1982; chief judge, Southern District New York, 1982-1986; senior judge, Southern District New York, since 1986.
( This wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of t...)
Member New York State Advisory Council Employment and Unemployment Insurance, 1958-1964. Member Association Bar City New York, Alpha Kappa Alpha (honorary member).
Married Joel Wilson Motley, Junior August 18, 1946. 1 son, Joel Wilson, III.