Fourteenth Amendment
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Constance Baker Motley
Life StoryThe 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.
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Brown as the Beginning
Significant CaseThe landmark Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional and led to wider civil rights victories in the 1960s.
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Browder v. Gayle
Significant CaseThe Supreme Court’s affirmation of a district court decision to outlaw segregated bussing in Montgomery, Alabama that overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
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Baker v. Carr
Significant CaseThe landmark case that declared unequal representation in legislative districts to be unconstitutional and that the courts have jurisdiction over questions of legislative apportionment
