U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks and Appellate Division Justice Valerie Brathwaite Nelson helped unveil a postage stamp of trailblazing Black judge and politician Constance Baker Motley in Jamaica, Queens, on ...

From the moment President Biden announced he would keep his campaign promise to appoint a Black woman to the highest court in the nation if given the chance, questions of whether a Black woman could ...

Judge Constance Baker Motley, who was born in New Haven, was praised Thursday night as Vice President Kamala Harris accepted her presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention. Harris ...

(Black PR Wire) — What: The 47th stamp in the Black Heritage series honors Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005), civil rights pioneer and the first African American woman to argue a case before the U.S.

NEW HAVEN — The late civil rights icon Constance Baker Motley would have felt right at home this week in the Dixwell Community "Q" House where she was honored as the latest honoree in the U.S. Postal ...

NAACP New Haven President Dori Dumas and Motley’s niece Constance Royster unveil the stamp at Q House event. Credit: Yash Roy Photos Judge Constance Baker Motley was the only woman to work at the ...

U.S. District Court Judge Constance Baker Motley, the first woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court, was honored with a U.S. postal stamp in her image, unveiled on Wednesday as the 47th in ...

February is Black History Month. It is designed to honor and recognize “the too-often neglected accomplishments of Black Americans,” as stated by President Gerald Ford in 1976. We devote this article ...

A look back at the life of Constance Baker Motley, a prominent civil rights attorney and the first African-American woman appointed to the federal judiciary. She died of congestive heart failure on ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In a career dedicated to the pursuit ...