Constance Baker Motley Papers, 1935-2006

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Series X: Audio-Visual Materials, 1950s-2000s


Subseries X.A.: Photographs, 1950s-1990s



Box 18 Miscellaneous Photographs-Early Years, 1950s-1960s


Box 18 NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Years, 1960-1964


Box 18 Mississippi Social Function, 1962


Box 18 A.D. King, 1963 March, 1963, 1963, March, 1963


Box 18 Alabama School Desegregation, 1964


Box 18 Manhattan Borough President Years-Harlem Projects, 1964-1966


Box 18 Smith College Honorary Degree, 1965


Box 18 Federation Hall Famous Immigrants Honor, 1966 September 16


Box 18 Iowa Wesleyan Honorary Degree, 1969


Box 18 Fordham University Honorary Degree, 1970


Box 18 Charles Evans Hughes Award, 1970 November


Box 18 Second Annual Memorial Tea for the Late Mary Cardwell Dawson at the Metropolitan Opera House, 1972 February 13


Box 18 Constance Baker Motley Apartments Dedication, 1972


Box 18 American Bar Association Convention, NYU Reception, 1975


Box 18 Yale Moot Court, 1977


Box 18 Charles Evans Hughes Award-Beverly Sills, 1984 March 5


Box 18 New Haven Street Naming, 1984 September 15


Box 18 Honorary Degree from Yale University, 1987


Box 18 University of Connecticut Honorary Degree, 1990 May 20


Box 18 Claremont College Honorary Degree, 1991, 1991


Box 18 Federal Bar Association and National Bar Association Tribute to Federal Black Judges -- Black Women Federal District Court Judges, 1992


Box 18 National Women's Hall of Fame, In Seneca Falls, New York, 1993, 1993


Middlebury College, Vermont Honorary Degree, 1994


Box 18 United States Judges of the Southern District, 1960s, 1991, 1993


Box 18 Honorary Degree at the 145th Commencement of Syracuse University, 1999 May 15


Box 18 Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary, Yale University, 2004 April 3


Box 18 With William Robert Ming at the Statler Hotel, undated


Box 18 Miscellaneous Photographs of the Judicial Years, 1960s-1990s


Box 18 Portraits, 1960s-1990s


Subseries X.B.: Audiotapes , 1983-1994, undated

Various audio-cassette tapes including interviews and speeches. Tapes are in standard and microcassette sizes. Some tapes are unlabeled/unkown. 24 cassettes and 12 microcassettes.



Box 19 Judge Motley and Ms. Winnefred Norman, 1993 September 15


Box 19 Motley Interview, 1993 October 10, 2 audiocassettes


Box 19 Interview to Charles Stern Regarding Desegregation of Lincoln Elementary School in New Rochelle, NY in 1963, 1993 November 17


Box 19 Interview to Legislative Women's Caucus, Incorporated, 1993 November 9, 2 audiocassettes


Box 19 Judge Motley Interview, 1994 April 8, 2 audiocassettes


Box 19 Interview to Junie Francois, 1994 May 6


Box 19 Interview to Patricia Herman regarding Plessy v. Ferguson, 1994 May 12


Box 19 Progress Report to Columbia, Interview to Dorothea Lockhart, 1994 June


Box 19 Motley Interview, 1994 July 18-20, 2 audiocassettes


Box 19 Judge Motley at Home


Box 19 Interview to Catherine Dargan and Junie Francois regarding Judge Motley's Contributions to the Civil Rights Movement


Box 19 Black Law Student Association, Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, 1982 October 18


Box 19 James Meredith


Box 19 Margaret Alexander


Box 19 Thurgood Marshall


Box 19 Miscellaneous Tapes Unlabeled


Box 19 Gene Burns Radio Program, 1991 October 15


Box 19 Interview, 1983 July 20, 1 microcassettes


Box 19 Interview about the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, 1988 October 8


Box 19 1988 Microcassette, 1988


Box 19 University of Maine Law School Interview, 1991, 1 microcassettes


Box 19 University of Maine Interview, 1993 July 19-20, 1 microcassettes


Box 19 University of Maine Interview, 1993 July 22, 1 microcassettes


Box 19 Interview with Darell Tyson, 1994, 1 microcassettes


Box 19 Interview on Family, 1994 April 17-24, 1 microcassettes


Box 19 Interview with Marion Wilson on Fisk University Reunion, 1994 April 29, 1 microcassettes


Box 19 Miscellaneous Microcassettes, Unlabeled, undated


Subseries X.C.: Videotapes, 1980s-2000s



Box 20 "Tuttle/Motley, In-Class 'Rough', 2P Generation", Undated


Box 20 "Documentary-Memphis, TN-Civil Rights Pioneers", 1996 April 22


Box 20 "Tuttle/Motley on Brown v. Board of Education", 1988 August 25, 3 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 20 "Jackie Mason Show", undated


Box 20 "A&E Biography - Thurgood Marshall, Justice for All", 2004, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 20 "Legacy: Judge Constance Baker Motley, Interviewed by Nancy Kilson", undated


Box 20 "Forum: Martin Luther King Jr. Convocation", 1992 January 20, 2 videocassettes (VHS)


Box 20 "Judge Constance Baker Motley Russell Sage College Founder's Convocation", 1997 September 25


Box 20 "Bicentennial of U.S. Constitution, Federal Square, New York City", 1987 September 17


Box 20 "The Road to Brown-Charles Houston (Motley Comments), Unversity of Virginia", undated


Box 20 "Journey for Justice: The A.P. Tureaud Story. A Documentary by Rachel L. Emanuel, Ph.D.", 1996


Box 20 "Judge Baker Motley: Just the Beginning", 1992 September 19