Memorable photo from the Ebony files

CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY, who played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement and as a young attorney represented the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., was the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge. Prior to President Johnson nominating her to the federal bench in 1966, the civil rights advocate won nine of 10 civil rights cases before the Supreme Court, and earlier she helped Thurgood Marshall prepare the draft complaint for the landmark Brown v.

Board of Education case. The former chief counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund died in September at age 84.

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