wgbh_tdcr_020 020 tdcr wgbh yes Constance Baker Motley NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund--Employees NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund African American women lawyers Segregation in education--Law and legislation--United States Segregation--Law and legislation--United States African Americans--Segregation African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc. Discrimination in education--Law and legislation--United States African Americans--Civil rights--United States Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka School integration--Massive resistance movement Federal-state controversies--Southern States Eyes on the Prize (Television program) States' rights (American politics) College integration--Mississippi--Oxford University of Mississippi United States--Race relations--History--20th century United States. Supreme Court African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Motley, Constance Baker, 1921- Meredith, James, 1933- Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993 Fair, Charles D., 1915-1988--Trials, litigation, etc. Plessy, Homer Adolph--Trials, litigation, etc. Ferguson, John H., judge--Trials, litigation, etc. Meredith, James, 1933- --Trials, litigation, etc. In this interview, Constance Baker Motley describes her role as an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) during the Civil Rights movement. As one of the few African American attorneys at the time, Motley worked on school desegregation cases, most notably Meredith v. Fair, in which she successfully argued that African American student James Meredith should be admitted to the University of Mississippi. Major funding for this project is provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Supported in part by a grant from the Open Society Institute. Grade range: 9-12. A transcript of an interview. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. [Boston, Mass.] : WGBH Educational Foundation Motley, Constance Baker, 1921- Eyes on the Prize (PBS) Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Libraries. Special Collections Teacher's Domain Civil Rights Special Collection WGBH Educational Foundation 2002/2008 Instructional materials Interviews Resource units Teaching guides Transcripts http://www.teachersdomain.org/resources/iml04/soc/ush/civil/motley/index.html text/html text/pdf 112.0 Kb Henry Hampton Collection, Washington University Libraries, Saint Louis, Missouri. Forms part of: Teacher's Domain Civil Right Special Collection. A PDF viewer may be needed to view the transcript. 1921/1982 Mississippi Southern States United States The Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Collection is a collaborative production of WGBH Education Productions, the WGBH Media Library, and WGBH Interactive, in partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and Washington University in St. Louis. 20110629 151721