Answer: Constance Baker Motley. As a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and a key lieutenant to Thurgood Marshall, Motley argued 10 cases before the Supreme Court between 1961 and 1964, winning nine. She wrote the original complaint in Brown v. Board of Education, and won James Meredith’s fight to enroll at Ole Miss in 1962. Read more here.
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