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Motley, Constance Baker —
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Federal court judge, lawyer, politician
When, in May of , the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in the Brown v. Board of Education case, the real struggle for school desegregation was just beginning.
Over the next ten years, dozens of legal battles were required to enforce the ruling, and one of the leading powers behind them was a young, black trial attorney named Constance Baker Motley. Motley began working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Legal Defense and Educational Fund in , while still a law student at Columbia.
Constance baker motley timeline
Within a short time, she had risen from clerk to associate counsel and earned a reputation as a keen and meticulous lawyer. The first African American woman to represent the NAACP in court, Motley participated in nearly every important civil rights case brought to trial between and , winning nine out of ten of them before the U.S.
Supreme Court. Among her most famous victories was