- Collection:
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
- Title:
- Constance Baker Motley
- Contributor to Resource:
- Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-
Eyes on the Prize (PBS)
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Libraries. Special Collections - Publisher:
- Henry Hampton Collection, Washington University Libraries, Saint Louis, Missouri.
- Date of Original:
- 1921/1982
- Subject:
- 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
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. - People:
- Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-
Meredith, James, 1933-
Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993
Fair, Charles D., 1915-1988
Plessy, Homer Adolph
Ferguson, John H. (Judge)
Meredith, James, 1933- - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434 - Medium:
- instructional materials
interviews
resource units
teaching guides
transcripts - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- text/html
- Description:
- 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. - Metadata URL:
- https://pbslearningmedia.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.motley/
- Rights Holder:
- 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.
- Extent:
- text/pdf
112.0 Kb - Contributing Institution:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Rights:
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