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Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

byTomiko Brown-Nagin

Centered on the constance baker motley and the struggle for equality, Civil Rights Queen shows Tomiko Brown-Nagin tracing how individual lives intersect with institutions, ideas, and historical change. Civil Rights Queen combines biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, allowing the evidence to complicate easy judgments and familiar explanations. Seen through the lens of biography & autobiography and history, Civil Rights Queen explains not only what happened, but why competing interpretations still matter. By the end, the constance baker motley and the struggle for equality emerges as a layered story of competing motives, unintended results, and choices made under pressure.

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

528

ISBN

9781524747183