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Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography Paperback - 1999

by Constance Baker Motley

The most detailed account to date of the legal conflicts of the civil rights movement, this book tells of Motley's struggle, as a black women, to succeed. 40 photos.


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This wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the fight to implement it--and its implications for affirmative action and black poverty today.

A black woman who moved in the corridors of power in the middle of this century, Constance Baker Motley has been a pioneer in both black civil rights and women's rights. As the key attorney assisting Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, she argued a dozen cases before the Supreme Court (winning all but one), and her representation of James Meredith in his bid to enroll in the University of Mississippi made her famous. Subsequently, as Manhattan borough president and a U.S. district court judge, she has fulfilled the highest aspirations of our legal and political system.

Equal Justice Under Law, the most detailed account to date of the legal conflicts of the civil rights movement, is also an account of Motley's struggle, as a black woman, to succeed, a record of a life lived with great courage and responsibility.

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IN JANUARY 1975, I BEGAN LEAFING THROUGH AN OLD BOOK THAT WAS KEPT UNDER LOCK AND KEY IN A SMALL WOODEN BOX WITH A GLASS TOP in the back of St. John's Anglican Church on Nevis, a tiny island in the eastern Caribbean.

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  • Title Equal Justice Under Law: An Autobiography
  • Author Constance Baker Motley
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, New York, NY
  • Date 1999-09-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780374526184 / 0374526184
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.54 x 0.76 in (20.27 x 14.07 x 1.93 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1950's
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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Citations

  • Black Issues Book Review, 05/01/2004, Page 23
  • Ebony, 11/01/2005, Page 45
  • New York Times, 09/26/1999, Page 32

About the author

Constance Baker Motley is a senior judge and a former chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. She lives in Manhattan and Chester, Connecticut.

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