Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motley
Constance Baker Motleywas an African-American civil rights activist, lawyer, judge, state senator, and Borough President of Manhattan, New York City...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth14 September 1921
CountryUnited States of America
Constance Baker Motley quotes about
different action form
Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
college southern black
All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.
kings media rights
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
school college men
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.
cities new-orleans atmosphere
New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.
college black south-carolina
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina
common single-relationship this-society
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
distance father class
My father kept his distance from working-class American blacks.
kings claims disobedience
King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.
college black resistance
Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks.
limits revolution
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
racism racist environment
I was born and raised in the oldest settled part of the nation and in an environment in which racism was officially mooted.
teenager school house
I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.
american-activist exemplary
We knew then what we know now; only exemplary blacks are acceptable.