Mondays at Beinecke: Judge Constance Baker Motley with Constance Royster and Wm. Frank Mitchell

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Monday, February 27, 2023 - 4:00pm to 4:30pm
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Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005) was a key civil rights strategist and the first Black woman appointed to the U.S. federal judiciary (Info: https://www.fjc.gov/node/1385436). Born in New Haven, she studied at Hillhouse High School, was president of the New Haven Negro Youth Council, and active with the Dixwell Community House (Q House).
This Mondays at Beinecke presentation is done in conjunction with a new exhibition forthcoming at the newly reopened Dixwell Q House, “Timeless: Telling Our Neighborhood Stories; Chapter 1: Constance Baker Motley,” organized by Frank Mitchell with Constance Royster.
Zoom webinar registration: https://bit.ly/3YA9T9N
Mitchell is a New Haven-based cultural organizer in visual arts and public humanities. He is a curatorial adviser for the Toni N. and Wendell C. Harp Historical Museum at the Dixwell Community House and Director Emeritus of The Amistad Center for Art & Culture. Mitchell holds a Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan, M.A. in African American Studies from Yale , and a B.A. from Bowdoin . He has curated numerous exhibitions, co-edited African-American Connecticut Explored, and taught at the University of Connecticut, Trinity College, Franklin & Marshall College, and the University of the Arts.
Royster, a niece of Judge Motley, is a fundraising, education, non-profit, and organizational consultant. She was director of major giving for WSHU Public Radio, and a development leader at Yale in the environment and divinity schools. A lawyer by training, Royster was an associate at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, and a founding partner at Cooper, Liebowitz, Royster & Wright, Born and raised in New Haven, she received her juris doctor from Rutgers and B.A. from Yale.
Mondays at Beinecke online talks focus on materials from the collections and include an opening presentation at 4pm followed by conversation and question and answer beginning about 4:30pm until 5pm.
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