Full Bio: Constance Baker Motley, Part 1 - a podcast by WNYC

[ORIGINALLY BROADCAST AS "The Early Life of Constance Baker Motley" ON MARCH 28, 2022] We launch the March installment of our Full Bio series with historianTomiko Brown-Nagin, who joins us to discuss her biography,Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality, about the civil rights lawyer, New York politician, and first Black woman to serve as a federal judge. Today, we discuss Motley's early life and education.

 

[The version of this segment that ran on air contained a section that was meant to be edited out. This is the edited version.]

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