Constance Baker Motley

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. ”

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us. ”

I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial. ”

In high school, I discovered myself. I was interested in race relations and the legal profession. I read about Lincoln and that he believed the law to be the most difficult of professions. ”

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. ”

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience. ”

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant. ”

Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats. ”

Doing away with separate black colleges meets resistance from alumni and other blacks. ”

King thought he understood the white Southerner, having been born and reared in Georgia and trained a theologian. ”