Goodbye to one of the Greats: Constance Baker Motley, 1921-2005
| December 6th, 2005If you don’t read any other post today, go and read this remembrance of Judge Constance Baker Motley, written by one of her former clerks.
Judge Motley, among many other accomplishments, was the first Black woman to be accepted at Columbia University Law School; the only woman on the legal team that won Brown v. Board of Education; the first Black woman elected to the New York State Senate; and the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge.
December 6th, 2005 at 11:16 pm
You might like also to read the Guardian’s obituary of this excellent woman.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1582548,00.html
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