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Constance Baker Motley

Constance Baker Motley (September 14, 1921 – September 28, 2005) was an African-American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, state senator, and Borough President of Manhattan, New York City. She was the first African-American woman appointed to the federal judiciary. She was an assistant attorney to Thurgood Marshall arguing the case Brown v. Board of Education.

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The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

Difference, Differences, Freedom, Legal, Riders, Significant

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Broadened, Views, World, Ymca

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

Ideas, Lawyer, Wanted, Idea, Good

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

New Orleans, Cities, Atmosphere, Orleans, Liberal, 1954

The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished

Racism, Racist, Facts, Fact, Diminished

My parents never told us that our great-grandmothers had been slaves.

Grandmother, Parent, Parents, Slave, Slaves, Told

There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.

Common, Single Relationship, This Society, Emerging, Impediment, Blacks

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

Limits, Revolution, Limit, Take, Appears

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

Encouragement, Kind, Persons, Down, Lack

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

Long, Enough, Profession, Legal, See

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

Rights, Movement, Women'S Rights, Bella

When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

Lawyer, Race, Thurgood, United, United States, Usa

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

Class, Racism, Sexism, Warfare

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.

White, Risk, Mississippi, Willing, Meredith

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

College, Black, South Carolina, Admit, Level

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

Criminals, Alabama, Trials, Stage, Counsel, Right

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

Decade, Impossible, Inspirational, Inspiring, Think, Women

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.

Writing, School, Tuberculosis, Essay, High

The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.

Black, Class, Poor, Two

I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

Bore, Found, Law, School

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