CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY: LADY OF THE LAW An exhibition at The Lillian Goldman Law Library Yale Law School Level Two March 9 – May 26, 2022

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CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY: LADY OF THE LAW
An exhibition at The Lillian Goldman Law Library
Yale Law School
Level Two
March 9 – May 26, 2022
This exhibit traces the career of Constance
Baker Motley (1921-2005), Civil Rights attorney and New Haven native.
The first woman attorney at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund; the first Black woman to argue before the United States Supreme Court; the first Black woman Senator in New York State; the first woman Manhattan Borough President; the first Black woman to be appointed to the federal bench; one of the first Black women graduates of Columbia Law School: these and others are among the many extraordinary accomplishments of Judge Motley’s career.
Drawing on images and personal items from the collection of her family, and on her own words in her autobiography, the exhibition offers a glimpse of Motley, brilliantly at work, from her childhood in New Haven through her career as a Civil Rights attorney, New York Senator, and federal judge.
May be an image of 11 people, people standing and text that says 'awea-bor Motley NAACP's ATO CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY: LADY OF THE LAW Anexhibition of images and persona items on loan from the family Constance Baker Motley The Lillian Goldman Law Library Yale Law School March9 May 26, 2022 With thanks to: The Lillian Goldman Law Library, Ûn Affinity African American Working The Office fe Inclusion, & The New Haven Club,Inc.-NANPBWC Yale'
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