Constance Baker Motley: the Record Shows
“Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.”
— Constance Baker Motley
U.S. civil rights history is not only written in marches and speeches. It is written in court transcripts, motions, and rulings that reshaped the nation. This puzzle traces the work of Constance Baker Motley, a lawyer who fought segregation not with slogans, but with law. Every answer comes from the record she helped create—one case, one argument, one victory at a time.
Photo: Constance Baker Motley makes a victory sign two days after her election in February 1964 as the first African American woman to serve in the New York State Senate. Credit: Walter Albertin (World Telegram & Sun); restored by Adam Cuerden
