Oral history interview with Constance Baker Motley, 1978
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- Name
- Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-2005 (Interviewee)
- Gellhorn, Kitty (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Constance Baker Motley, 1978
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Constance Baker Motley, 1978
- Abstract
- West Indian family background; childhood in New Haven; activities with New Haven Community Council, 1936; work with National Youth Administration, 1939; education at Fisk, New York University; Columbia Law School, 1944-46; discrimination and affirmative action in education; impact of Plessey, Brown, and Bakke cases; NAACP Legal Defense Fund work, 1945-65; restrictive covenant cases, 1948; James Mer edith, 1961; judicial resistance to desegregation rulings; 1965 Selma to Montgomery march; march on Washington; right-to-counsel, freedom rider movement, sit-in cases; Civil Rights Act of 1964; Swain case on jury selection; urban renewal and fair housing programs in the courts; issues addressed as New York State Senator, 1964-65; Manhattan borough presidency, 1965-66, and work with New York, N.Y. redevelopment programs, Morningside Urban Renewal conflict, community dispute mediations; United States District Court Judge, New York, 1966- ; the United States court system and effects of Speedy Trial act; present direction of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; impressions of Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Wagner, Jr. and others
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- African American judges; African American women; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Civil rights; African Americans--Segregation; Practice of law; Judicial process; New York (N.Y.) Politics and government 1951-; New York (State) Politics and government 1951-; Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-; NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1978
- Physical Description
- 801 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Judge; interviewee married Joel Motley
- Note (Funding)
- Digital audio reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Kitty Gellhorn
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 6864700
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-189z-gb63
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.