This exhibit traces the career of Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005), Civil Rights attorney and New Haven native. The first woman attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; the first Black woman to argue before the United States Supreme Court; the first Black woman Senator in New York State; the first woman Manhattan Borough President; the first Black woman to be appointed to the federal bench; one of the first Black women graduates of Columbia Law School: these and others are among the many extraordinary accomplishments of Judge Motley’s career. Drawing on images and personal items from the collection of her family, and on her own words in her autobiography, the exhibition offers a glimpse of Motley, brilliantly at work, from her childhood in New Haven through her career as a Civil Rights attorney, New York Senator, and federal judge.
Contact: Kathryn James, https://library.law.yale.edu/people/kathryn-james, kathryn.james@yale.edu, (203) 432-4494
Constance Baker Motley: Lady of the Law
Event time:
Wednesday, March 9, 2022 - 12:00am to Sunday, June 26, 2022 - 12:00am
Location:
Lillian Goldman Law Library Annex (SLB), Rare Book Exhibition Gallery
127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Admission:
Free
Contact:
(see "Description" above)
Open To:
Calendar Sponsor:
Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale African American Affinity Group, Yale Working Women's Network, Office of Diversity & Inclusion, New Haven Club, Inc.-NANPBWC