Women
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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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Bessie Margolin
Life StoryThe daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who dedicated her four decades of government service to fighting for workers’ rights
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Belva Lockwood
Life StoryThe educator, activist, and attorney who became both the first woman to argue before the Supreme Court and to run for President of the United States.
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Affirming Judicial Independence
EraThrough a series of landmark decisions, the Justices of the Marshall Court affirmed the judicial independence of the federal courts, the authority of the Supreme Court, and ensured that the Judicial Branch was an equal branch of the federal government.
