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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
x, 497 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) portraits, photographs, facsimilie ; 25 cm.
Description
"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....
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