Motley is widely acknowledged as a major figure in the Civil Rights Movement, especially its legal battles. As the first Black woman to sit on the federal judiciary she (1921-2005) worked on civil rights cases alongside Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP LDF
Motley is widely acknowledged as a major figure in the Civil Rights Movement, especially its legal battles. As the first Black woman to sit on the federal judiciary she (1921-2005) worked on civil rights cases alongside Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP LDF
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze.
No one ever thanked him.
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze.
No one ever thanked him.