Full Bio — 'Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality'
All Of It with Alison Stewart | Apr 9, 2022
Constance Baker Motley was a civil rights lawyer, New York state senator, Manhattan Borough President, and the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge. She also shares a birthday with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, soon to be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
For our March installment of Full Bio, historian, lawyer and Harvard Radcliffe Institute dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin joined us to discuss her latest work, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality. Here you can listen to all four parts of our interview.
- Constance Baker Motley, Part 1: Motley's family, upbringing, education, and entrance into law.
- Constance Baker Motley, Part 2: The early days of Motley's legal career and some of the major cases in which she was involved, including Brown v. Board of Education.
- Constance Baker Motley, Part 3: More about Motley's legal career, as well as her entrance into politics, which would lead her to become a New York state senator and Manhattan Borough President.
- Constance Baker Motley, Part 4: The latter part of Motley's life and career, including how she became the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge.
