| LC control no. | n 98021835 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-2005 |
| Variant(s) | Baker, Constance, 1921-2005 |
| Biography/History note | Individual was a Spingarn Medal awardee and a National Women's Hall of Fame inductee. |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 19210914 |
| Death date | 20050928 |
| Place of birth | New Haven (Conn.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Civil rights--United States |
| Affiliation | New York University Columbia University. School of Law National Association for the Advancement of Colored People New York (State). Legislature. Senate United States. District Court (New York : Southern District) |
| Profession or occupation | Lawyers Judges Civil rights workers |
| Found in | Equal justice under law, 1998: CIP t.p. (Constance Baker Motley) data sheet (b. 21 Sept. 1921) galley (a senior judge and a former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York; lives in Manhattan and Chester, Conn.) LC database, Mar. 6, 1998 (hdgs.: Motley, Constance Baker; Motley, Constance Baker, 1921- ) New York times WWW site, Sept. 29, 2005: (Constance Baker Motley; b. Constance Baker, Sept. 14, 1921, New Haven; d. yesterday [Sept. 28, 2005], Manhattan, aged 84; civil rights lawyer who fought nearly every important civil rights case for two decades and then became the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge) National Visionary Leadership Project oral history, 2002-01-21: collection materials (Constance Baker Motley; b. Sept. 14, 1921 in New Haven, Conn., civil rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, New York State Senator, d. Sept. 28, 2005) African American National Biography, accessed February 27, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Motley, Constance Baker; lawyer, jurist/ judge, civil rights activist, state legislator; born 14 September 1921 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States; BA in Economics at New York University (1943); completed Columbia Law School; became assistant counsel, later chief counsel of the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund (LDF) (1949); worked on cases involving segregation in public education, including on Sweatt v. Painter (1950); wrote briefs for Brown v. Board of Education (1954); first African American woman to serve as New York state senator (1963); became the first woman president of the borough of Manhattan (1965); was appointed chief judge of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, assuming senior status (1986); died 28 September 2005 in New York, New York, United States) |
| Associated language | eng |
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