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092			_aMOTLEY, C. _bB879
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100	1		_aBrown-Nagin, Tomiko, _d1970- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCivil rights queen : _bConstance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality / _cTomiko Brown-Nagin.
246	3	0	_aConstance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPantheon Books, _c[2022]
264		4	_c©2022
300			_ax, 497 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 445-468) and index.
505	0		_aBeginnings -- Becoming the civil rights queen -- The heights and depths of life as a symbol and agent of change -- A season in politics -- On the bench.
520			_a"Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, the first of ten she would eventually argue. The only black woman member in the legal team at the NAACP's Inc. Fund at the time, she defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, helped to argue in Brown vs. The Board of Education, and played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South. She was the first black woman elected to the state Senate in New York, the first woman elected Manhattan Borough President, and the first black woman appointed to the federal judiciary. Civil Rights Queen captures the story of a remarkable American life, a figure who remade law and inspired the imaginations of African Americans across the country. Burnished with an extraordinary wealth of research, award-winning, esteemed Civil Rights and legal historian and dean of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Tomiko Brown-Nagin brings Motley to life in these pages. Brown-Nagin compels us to ponder some of our most timeless and urgent questions-how do the historically marginalized access the corridors of power? What is the price of the ticket? How does access to power shape individuals committed to social justice? In Civil Rights Queen, she dramatically fills out the picture of some of the most profound judicial and societal change made in twentieth-century America"-- _cprovided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aMotley, Constance Baker, _d1921-2005 _1https://isni.org/isni/0000000038091981
650		0	_aJudges _zNew York (State) _vBiography.
650		0	_aAfrican American judges _zNew York (State) _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen judges _zNew York (State) _vBiography.
650		0	_aLawyers _zNew York (State) _vBiography.
650		0	_aCivil rights workers _zNew York (State) _vBiography.
650		0	_aCivil rights _zUnited States. _98069
650		0	_aEquality before the law _zUnited States.
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