Harvard Law School published this video item, entitled “Book Talk | Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality” – below is their description.
As part of a Feb. 8 HLS Library Faculty Book Talk, a group of panelists discussed “Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality,” with author and HLS Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and member of the history department at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Born to an aspirational working-class family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to make a career as a hairdresser. Instead, she earned a law degree and used it to transform American society. The only woman member of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s legal team for many years, Motley helped litigate Brown v. Board of Education, defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, and played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws in throughout the South.
Panelists include:
Kenneth Mack, Harvard Law School Professor
Sheryll Cashin, Georgetown Law Professor
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Harvard University Professor
This discussion was co-sponsored by the Harvard Law School Library, International Legal Studies, and East Asian Legal Studies.
Harvard Law School YouTube Channel
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