Constance Baker Motley takes on 'Brown v. Board of Education,' Other Cases (Full Bio)

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Jan 15, 2024

[REBROADCAST FROM March 29, 2022] We air the second part of our March installment of Full Bio. Today, historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin discusses the early days of Constance Baker Motley's legal career and some of the major cases in which she was involved, including Brown v. Board of Education. Brown-Nagin's biography is called, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality.

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