Advocate

Women in Law: 1953-1969

How a small but growing number of women pursued law careers and advocated before the Supreme Court

Thurgood Marshall as an Advocate

Before he was a Supreme Court Justice, Marshall advocated for civil rights as a lawyer with the NAACP.

Gus Garcia

The charismatic attorney who fought for civil rights and worked with the first Mexican-American legal team to argue before the Supreme Court

Dorothy Kenyon

The lawyer and social activist whose lifelong advocacy laid the foundation for litigating women’s rights

Daniel Webster

Constance Baker Motley

The daughter of Caribbean immigrants who became a monumental civil rights advocate, pioneer in politics, and the first Black woman to argue before the Supreme Court and to serve as a federal district judge.

Bessie Margolin

The daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who dedicated her four decades of government service to fighting for workers’ rights