Judge Constance B. Motley was a civil rights pioneer who died on Tuesday at the age of 84. She was the first female African-American federal Judge. During the early part of her career she worked with Thurgood Marshll at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. She assisted in the Brown V. Board of Education case and argued before the Supreme Court on behalf of James Meredith to attend the University of Mississippi. Her personal life goal was dignity for all people. She died in Manhattan.
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