A review by ashp
Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality by Tomiko Brown-Nagin

emotional hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

An important book about a Black woman who informed how being a wife, career woman, and mother is not an anomaly, even in the 1950s. Baker Motley is central to a number of important history making moments. This is a thorough biography. I think of her like Bayard Rustin, an important Civil Rights leader who has not been rightfully acknowledged until recently.