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  title info:
    title: Civil rights queen
    sub title: Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
  name:
    name part: Brown-Nagin, Tomiko
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 497 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Brown-Nagin captures the story of Constance Baker Motley, a remarkable figure who remade law and inspired the imaginations of African Americans across the country. Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, 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.
  table of contents: Part one. Beginnings. "The base of this great ambition": Nevis and New Haven -- "I discovered myself": the Great Depression, the New Deal, and the dawn of a political conscience -- "Like a fairy tale": Black exceptionalism, philanthropy, and a path to higher education -- A fortuitous meeting with "Mr. Civil Rights": Thurgood Marshall and an offer not to be refused -- "They hovered over and cared for each other": the uncommon union of Constance Baker and Joel Motley Jr. -- Part two. Becoming the civil rights queen. "A professional woman": Breaking barriers at work and in the courtroom -- "We all felt the excruciating pressure": making history in Brown v. Board of Education -- "The fight has just begun": the decade-long slog to desegregate the University of Florida College of Law -- "We made a mistake": "poor character," "loose morals," and untold sacrifices in pursuit of higher education at the University of Alabama -- Part three. The heights and depths of life as a symbol and agent of change. The "best plaintiffs ever": desegregating the University of Georgia -- A "difficulty with the idea of a woman": the setback of 1961 -- "That's your case": James Meredith and the battle to desegregate the University of Mississippi -- "I am human after all": trauma and hardship in the long battle at Ole Miss -- An "eye-opening experience": the Birmingham civil rights campaign --
  table of contents: Part four. A season in politics. "An ideal candidate": the making of a political progressive -- "Crisis of leadership": a clash between radical and reform politics -- "Not a feminist": the Manhattan Borough presidency -- Part five. On the bench. "First": the judicial confirmation -- "A tough old bird": Judge Motley's court -- "The weeping and the wailing": the Black Panther Party, the FBI, and the Huggins Family -- "Pawns in a very dangerous game": crime, punishment, and prisoners' rights -- A "woman lawyer" and a "woman judge": making opportunity for women in law -- "For a girl, you know a lot about sports": the New York Yankees strike out in Judge Motley's courtroom -- No "protecting angel": Blacks, Latinos, and ordinary people in Judge Motley's courtroom -- Epilogue. Legacies.
  note: Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Motley, Constance Baker
      name part: 1921-2005
  subject:
    topic: Judges
    geographic: New York (State)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African American judges
    geographic: New York (State)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: African American women lawyers
    geographic: New York (State)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Women lawyers
    geographic: New York (State)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Women judges
    geographic: New York (State)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Lawyers
    geographic: New York (State)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Civil rights workers
    geographic: New York (State)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Civil rights lawyers
    geographic: New York (State)
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Civil rights
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Equality before the law
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / African American & Black
  classification: KF373.M64 B76 2022
  classification: 323.092
  identifier: 9781524747183
  identifier: 1524747181
  identifier: 9780525436102
  identifier: 0525436103
  identifier: 9781524747190
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 211006
    record change date: 20240327134614.4
    record identifier: in00004726390