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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Brown-Nagin, Tomiko, 1970- author.     Subjects     Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-2005.     Lawyers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     Women judges -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.     African American judges -- United States -- Biography.     Judges -- United States -- Biography.     Women legislators -- United States -- Biography.     Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.     Equality before the law -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Brown-Nagin, Tomiko, 1970- author.       by title:      Civil rights queen :...         MARC Display

Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality / Tomiko Brown-Nagin. by Brown-Nagin, Tomiko, 1970- author. New York : Pantheon Books, [2022] Subjects Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-2005.   Lawyers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.   Women judges -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography.   African American judges -- United States -- Biography.   Judges -- United States -- Biography.   Women legislators -- United States -- Biography.   Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.   Equality before the law -- United States. ISBN:  9781524747183 (hardcover) : 1524747181 (hardcover) : Description:  x, 497 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Born to an aspirational working-class family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she earned a law degree and used it to transform American society. For many years the only woman member of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's legal team, Motley helped litigate Brown v. Board of Education, defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, and played a crucial role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South. During a second act, she broke barriers in politics by becoming the first woman elected borough president of Manhattan first black elected to the New York State Senate. In the third act that capped her career, she was the first black woman appointed to the federal judiciary, becoming both a symbol of change in the American power structure and a part of it--an outsider within the system that she had long fought."-- Publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 374.73014 Motley Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Biography B Motley Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Nonfiction 374.73014 Motley Br Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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