On this day in 1921, Constance Baker Motley was born in New Haven, Connecticut to immigrant parents.
A civil rights giant, she was inspired to pursue a career in social justice, becoming actively involved in community affairs at a young age. Motley’s historic journey began as a clerk for the NAACP and later would take on the position of lawyer for the organization’s legal defense fund.
She represented Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Freedom Riders and Birmingham children protesters.
In 1966, Motley became the first African American woman named as a federal court judge, nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
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