English | 2022 | ISBN: 1524747181 | 510 pages | True epub | 22.29 MB
The first major biography of one of our most influential judges-an activist lawyer who became the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary–that provides an eye-opening account of the twin struggles for gender equality and civil rights in the 20th Century.
"A must read for anyone who dares to believe that equal justice under the law is possible and is in search of a model for how to make it a reality." -Anita Hill
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 inBrown vs. The Board of Education,and …
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