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Tomiko Brown-Nagin

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The Legal Mind of Constance Baker Motley

The story of Motley's legal career prior to Brown v. Board, and her crucial participation in it.

by Tomiko Brown-Nagin via Black Perspectives on October 14, 2022
Rescuing MLK and His Children's Crusade

A new book traces the tactics of groundbreaking lawyer Constance Baker Motley amid pivotal protests in Birmingham.

by Tomiko Brown-Nagin via Harvard Gazette on January 13, 2022

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality

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Collage of civil rights lawyers and school segregation headlines.

In Search of the Broad Highway

Revisiting Meredith v. Fair, we get the inside story of how critical race theory was developed in the years after Brown v. Board of Education.

by Dave Tell via The Hedgehog Review on July 26, 2024

A gate opening to the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass.

Harvard Leaders and Staff Enslaved 79 People, University Finds

The school said it had benefited from slave-generated wealth and practiced racial discrimination.

by Nick Anderson, Susan Svrluga via Washington Post on April 26, 2022

Members of the Harvard branch of the KKK pose for 1924 graduation photo at the foot of John Harvard Statue

The Crimson Klan

The KKK was clearly present at Harvard. But the university rarely mentions the 20th century in its attempts to reckon with its past.

by Simon J. Levien via The Harvard Crimson on March 29, 2021

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