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After an eminent legal career that spanned six decades, Constance Baker Motley, the renowned civil rights attorney and first African-American woman appointed to the federal judiciary, died last Wednesday in Manhattan...
...time in which few women were lawyers, Motley served for two decades on the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, where she developed a reputation as one of the nation’s most skilled civil rights attorneys...
...decades after World War II, as the Civil Rights Movement swept across the South, Motley helped prepare briefs for numerous school desegregation cases sponsored by the NAACP, including the epochal Brown v. Board of Education...
...Motley argued many of the most significant civil rights cases, including those involving James Meredith’s admission to the University of Mississippi and the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. Motley successfully argued nine of the 10 cases that she presented before the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1960s...
Core Curriculum, you are a motley and arbitrary collection, and I loathe you because you equate gendered communities in North Africa with the history of Western civilization. I loathe you because when I ask you if indigenous Australians had a Bach (which is a rhetorical question), I can very much imagine you offering up, without a hint of irony, a study of Aboriginal didgeridoos...