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Civil rights queen : Constance Baker Motley and the struggle for equality
(2022)
By: Brown-Nagin, Tomiko, 1970-

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/MOTLEY,C

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Biography & Memoir BIOGRAPHY/MOTLEY,C Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Pantheon Books, [2022]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

x, 497 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781524747183, 1524747181 :, 1524747181, 9781524747183
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

This biography of the first black woman to argue a case in front of the Supreme Court examines how she played a critical role in vanquishing Jim Crow laws throughout the South

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