Black Fact = 1965 ( Feb. 23)- Constance Baker Motley was elected President of the Manhattan Borough on this date in 1965-the highest elected office held by a black woman in a major U.S. city at this time. #theraydiotwins
FILE- In this Aug. 9, 1965, file photo, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, chats with his wife, Coretta, left, and civil rights champion Constance Baker Motley before the start of an S.C.L.C. banquet in Birmingham, Ala. The NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund launched a $40 million scholarship program on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, to create a new generation of civil rights lawyers. The Marshall-Motley Scholars Program, named for the legal defense fund’s founder and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and his staff attorney Constance Baker Motley, who later became the first Black female federal judge. (AP Photo/File)(Original Caption) New York: Outgoing Manhattan Borough President Constance Baker Motley, at press conference at her office in New York City. Close up during press conference.
