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Item specifics
- Condition
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9781524747183
- Book Title
- Civil Rights Queen : Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.8 in
- Genre
- Law, Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Women, General, Lawyers & Judges, African American
- Item Weight
- 33.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1524747181
ISBN-13
9781524747183
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28050389216
Product Key Features
Book Title
Civil Rights Queen : Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Women, General, Lawyers & Judges, African American
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
33.7 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Rigorously researched and elegantly written, Civil Rights Queen is a seminal biography of an extraordinary figure whose legacy has been obscured for far too long. Brown-Nagin powerfully illuminates Motley's journey into the heart of American law and politics, and the result is a magisterial work that befits its subject." --Ibram X. Kendi, bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist "[An] immersive and eye-opening biography . . . Brilliantly balancing the details of Motley's professional and personal life with lucid legal analysis, this riveting account shines a well-deserved--and long overdue--spotlight on a remarkable trailblazer." -- Publisher's Weekly , * starred review * "Tomiko Brown-Nagin brings a story-teller's art, meticulous research, and astute legal and psychological insights to the life and times of a central figure of the civil rights movement. This book rectifies the exclusions experienced by Constance Baker Motley...in historical memory and provides a riveting account of how a working class daughter of West Indian immigrants imagined and created a life of doing justice as a warrior for change. Readers will . . . never forget the woman whose outspoken, proud, and ferocious sense of justice changed her fortunes while she challenged America's racial apartheid, gender barriers, and day-to-day obstacles to human thriving." -- Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University, "Rigorously researched and elegantly written, Civil Rights Queen is a seminal biography of an extraordinary figure whose legacy has been obscured for far too long. Brown-Nagin powerfully illuminates Motley's journey into the heart of American law and politics, and the result is a magisterial work that befits its subject." --Ibram X. Kendi, bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist "Compelling, candid, and highly revelatory. By examining in striking detail the remarkable life of Constance Baker Motley--a formidable lawyer turned politician turned judge -- Professor Brown-Nagin makes a major contribution to several fields: race relations, women's studies, the study of the legal profession, and modern American history." --Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School "[An] immersive and eye-opening biography . . . Brilliantly balancing the details of Motley's professional and personal life with lucid legal analysis, this riveting account shines a well-deserved--and long overdue--spotlight on a remarkable trailblazer." -- Publisher's Weekly , * starred review * "Constance Baker Motley ought to be as well-known as Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. In a better world, Motley would be a household name. With this urgently necessary and exhaustive biography, Tomiko Brown-Nagin is building that better world." --Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States "In Civil Rights Queen , award-winning historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin recognizes an unsung American heroine . . . Through an intimate, behind the scenes journey into what Motley did, where she came from and how she got there, we learn the keys to Black women's successes in the 20th century. Civil Rights Queen is a dazzling life story that inspires readers to discover the Constance Baker Motley in ourselves." --Martha Jones, author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All "A brilliantly researched and riveting biography. Tomiko Brown-Nagin models the care, preparation and excellence of Motley; through a decade of effort she has written an instant classic that rightfully places Motley at the center of the American struggle for racial justice." --Sheryll Cashin, Author of White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality " Civil Rights Queen is a brilliant work, elegantly written and deeply researched. Brown-Nagin does complete justice to the life of Constance Baker Motley, one of the Twentieth Century's towering figures." --Annette Gordon-Reed "Tomiko Brown-Nagin brings a story-teller's art, meticulous research, and astute legal and psychological insights to the life and times of a central figure of the civil rights movement. This book rectifies the exclusions experienced by Constance Baker Motley...in historical memory and provides a riveting account of how a working class daughter of West Indian immigrants imagined and created a life of doing justice as a warrior for change. Readers will . . . never forget the woman whose outspoken, proud, and ferocious sense of justice changed her fortunes while she challenged America's racial apartheid, gender barriers, and day-to-day obstacles to human thriving." -- Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University, "Rigorously researched and elegantly written, Civil Rights Queen is a seminal biography of an extraordinary figure whose legacy has been obscured for far too long. Brown-Nagin powerfully illuminates Motley's journey into the heart of American law and politics, and the result is a magisterial work that befits its subject." --Ibram X. Kendi, bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist "Tomiko Brown-Nagin brings a story-teller's art, meticulous research, and astute legal and psychological insights to the life and times of a central figure of the civil rights movement. This book rectifies the exclusions experienced by Constance Baker Motley...in historical memory and provides a riveting account of how a working class daughter of West Indian immigrants imagined and created a life of doing justice as a warrior for change. Readers will...never forget the woman whose outspoken, proud, and ferocious sense of justice changed her fortunes while she challenged America's racial apartheid, gender barriers, and day-to-day obstacles to human thriving." -- Martha Minow, 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University
Dewey Decimal
347.7470234
Table Of Content
Introduction . . . 3 PART I. BEGINNINGS 1. "The Base of This Great Ambition": Nevis and New Haven . . . 15 2. "I Discovered Myself": The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Dawn of a Political Conscience . . . 28 3. "Like a Fairy Tale": Black Exceptionalism, Philanthropy, and a Path to Higher Education . . . 39 4. A Fortuitous Meeting with "Mr. Civil Rights": Thurgood Marshall and an Offer Not to Be Refused . . . 53 5. "They Hovered Over and Cared for Each Other": The Uncommon Union of Constance Baker and Joel Motley Jr. . . . 56 PART II. BECOMING THE CIVIL RIGHTS QUEEN 6. "A Professional Woman": Breaking Barriers at Work and in the Courtroom . . . 65 7. "We All Felt the Excruciating Pressure": Making History in Brown v. Board of Education . . . 79 8. "The Fight Has Just Begun": The Decade-Long Slog to Desegregate the University of Florida College of Law . . . 91 9. "We Made a Mistake": "Poor Character," "Loose Morals," and Untold Sacrifices in Pursuit of Higher Education at the University of Alabama . . . 98 PART III. THE HEIGHTS AND DEPTHS OF LIFE AS A SYMBOL AND AGENT OF CHANGE 10. The "Best Plaintiffs Ever": Desegregating the University of Georgia . . . 113 11. A "Difficulty with the Idea of a Woman": The Setback of 1961 . . . 126 12. "That's Your Case": James Meredith and the Battle to Desegregate the University of Mississippi . . . 141 13. "I Am Human After All": Trauma and Hardship in the Long Battle at Ole Miss . . . 158 14. An "Eye-Opening Experience": The Birmingham Civil Rights Campaign . . . 177 PART IV. A SEASON IN POLITICS 15. "An Ideal Candidate": The Making of a Political Progressive . . . 201 16. "Crisis of Leadership": A Clash Between Radical and Reform Politics . . . 217 17. "Not a Feminist": The Manhattan Borough Presidency . . . 228 PART V: ON THE BENCH 18. "First": The Judicial Confirmation . . . 247 19. "A Tough Old Bird": Judge Motley's Court . . . 264 20. "The Weeping and the Wailing": The Black Panther Party, the FBI, and the Huggins Family . . . 272 21. "Pawns in a Very Dangerous Game": Crime, Punishment, and Prisoners' Rights . . . 283 22. A "Woman Lawyer" and a "Woman Judge": Making Opportunity for Women in Law . . . 302 23. "For a Girl, You Know a Lot About Sports": The New York Yankees Strike Out in Judge Motley's Courtroom . . . 316 24. No "Protecting Angel": Blacks, Latinos, and Ordinary People in Judge Motley's Courtroom . . . 327 Epilogue: Legacies . . . 345 Acknowledgments . . .363 Notes . . . 367 Sources . . . 445 Index . . . 469
Synopsis
A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * The first major biography of one of our most influential judges--an activist lawyer who became the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary--that provides an eye-opening account of the twin struggles for gender equality and civil rights in the 20th Century. * "Timely and essential."-- The Washington Post "A must-read for anyone who dares to believe that equal justice under the law is possible and is in search of a model for how to make it a reality." --Anita Hill With the US Supreme Court confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, "it makes sense to revisit the life and work of another Black woman who profoundly shaped the law: Constance Baker Motley" (CNN). Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, the first of ten she would eventually argue. The only black woman member in the legal team at the NAACP's Inc. Fund at the time, she defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, helped to argue in Brown vs. The Board of Education, and played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South. She was the first black woman elected to the state Senate in New York, the first woman elected Manhattan Borough President, and the first black woman appointed to the federal judiciary. Civil Rights Queen captures the story of a remarkable American life, a figure who remade law and inspired the imaginations of African Americans across the country. Burnished with an extraordinary wealth of research, award-winning, esteemed Civil Rights and legal historian and dean of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Tomiko Brown-Nagin brings Motley to life in these pages. Brown-Nagin compels us to ponder some of our most timeless and urgent questions--how do the historically marginalized access the corridors of power? What is the price of the ticket? How does access to power shape individuals committed to social justice? In Civil Rights Queen , she dramatically fills out the picture of some of the most profound judicial and societal change made in twentieth-century America., A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - The first major biography of one of our most influential judges--an activist lawyer who became the first Black woman appointed to the federal judiciary--that provides an eye-opening account of the twin struggles for gender equality and civil rights in the 20th Century. - "Timely and essential."-- The Washington Post "A must-read for anyone who dares to believe that equal justice under the law is possible and is in search of a model for how to make it a reality." --Anita Hill With the US Supreme Court confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson, "it makes sense to revisit the life and work of another Black woman who profoundly shaped the law: Constance Baker Motley" (CNN). Born to an aspirational blue-collar family during the Great Depression, Constance Baker Motley was expected to find herself a good career as a hair dresser. Instead, she became the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, the first of ten she would eventually argue. The only black woman member in the legal team at the NAACP's Inc. Fund at the time, she defended Martin Luther King in Birmingham, helped to argue in Brown vs. The Board of Education, and played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South. She was the first black woman elected to the state Senate in New York, the first woman elected Manhattan Borough President, and the first black woman appointed to the federal judiciary. Civil Rights Queen captures the story of a remarkable American life, a figure who remade law and inspired the imaginations of African Americans across the country. Burnished with an extraordinary wealth of research, award-winning, esteemed Civil Rights and legal historian and dean of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Tomiko Brown-Nagin brings Motley to life in these pages. Brown-Nagin compels us to ponder some of our most timeless and urgent questions--how do the historically marginalized access the corridors of power? What is the price of the ticket? How does access to power shape individuals committed to social justice? In Civil Rights Queen , she dramatically fills out the picture of some of the most profound judicial and societal change made in twentieth-century America.
LC Classification Number
KF373.M64B76 2022
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