Constance Baker Motley: One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law
Author
Gary L. Ford Jr.
Content
viii + 164 pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press
Publication notes
Revised dissertation, University of Maryland
Description
Biography of the civil rights activist, attorney, and judge who defended Martin Luther King Jr. on behalf of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, was the first African American woman to argue before the Supreme Court, was the first African American woman appointed to the federal judiciary, and was part of the legal team for Brown v. Board of Education.
Main subject
Autobiography and Biography Law Politics
ISBN
9780817319571 (cloth); 9780817391447 (ebook)
Citation
Ford, Gary L., Jr. Constance Baker Motley: One Woman's Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2017. Sylvia. Accessed June 14, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL542.
