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02705aam a2200349 i 4500 001 3F59074E0CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230617010022 008 230228s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0525436103 020 $a 9780525436102 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Brown-Nagin, Tomiko, $d 1970-, $e author. 245 1 $a Civil rights queen : $b Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality / $c Tomiko Brown-Nagin. 246 3 $a Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality. 250 $a First Vintage Books edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, $c 2023. 300 $a x, 497 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-468) and index. 520 $a 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 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. This book captures the story of a remarkable American life, a figure who remade law and inspired the imaginations of African Americans across the country. Here, author Tomiko Brown-Nagin compels us to ponder some of our most timeless and urgent questions: How do the historically marginalized access the corridors of power? What is the price of the ticket? How does access to power shape individuals committed to social justice? Here, she dramatically fills out the picture of some of the most profound judicial and societal change made in twentieth-century America. 541 $d 20230420. 600 1 $a Motley, Constance Baker $d 1921-2005. 650 $a African American women lawyers $z New York (State) $v Biography. 650 $a Civil rights workers $z New York (State) $v Biography. 650 $a Equality before the law $z United States. 651 $a United States $x History $y 20th century. 655 7 $a Biographies. 941 $a 3 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20231108010352.0 952 $l ORAX826 $d 20230706010217.0 952 $l BVPE851 $d 20230617010051.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3F59074E0CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search