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- NAME: Constance Baker Motley
- OCCUPATION: Civil Rights Activist, Lawyer, Judge
- BIRTH DATE: September 14, 1921
- DEATH DATE: September 28, 2005
- EDUCATION: New York University, Columbia University
- PLACE OF BIRTH: New Haven, Connecticut
- PLACE OF DEATH: New York, New York
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Constance Baker Motley was a legal advocate in the civil rights movement and the first African American woman to become a federal judge.
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Constance Baker Motley was born on September 14, 1921 in New Haven, CT. She joined the Legal Defense and Educational Fund of the NAACP and worked with Thurgood Marshall. She won civil rights victories in the U.S. Supreme Court, served in New York state's Senate, was a city borough president and in 1966, became the first black woman to be appointed to a federal judgeship. She died in 2005.© 2012 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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