Virtual Book Talk: Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

When:
Wednesday, Jan 26, 2022 7:00p -
8:00p

Where:
Online event
10 1/2 Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108

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Admission:
$5

Categories:
History, Lectures & Conferences, Virtual & Streaming

Event website:
https://community.bostonathenaeum.org/s/events?event=a2K4W000006BZY7

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“[An] immersive and eye-opening biography . . . Brilliantly balancing the details of Motley’s professional and personal life with lucid legal analysis, this riveting account shines a well-deserved—and long overdue—spotlight on a remarkable trailblazer.”
—Publishers Weekly, *starred review*


Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hairdresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, and that was just the beginning. Civil Rights Queen captures the story of a remarkable American life, a figure who remade law and inspired the imaginations of African Americans across the country. With an extraordinary wealth of research, award-winning legal historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin brings Motley to life and dramatically fills out the picture of some of the most profound judicial and societal changes made in twentieth-century America.

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