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Constance Baker Motley Remembered

"Constance Baker Motley, a civil rights lawyer who fought nearly every important civil rights case for two decades, winning the desegregation of schools, buses and lunch counters, and then became the first black woman to serve as a federal judge, died Wednesday in Manhattan. She was 84."

Read the rest of the Rutland Herald's Remembrance of Judge Motley:

http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050929/NEWS/509290377/1024

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