Tomiko Brown-Nagin, author of Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality, and Elizabeth Cobbs, author of Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé explore key influential women throughout history and how these women inspired constitutional change. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
This program is made possible through the generous support of the McNulty Foundation in partnership with the Anne Welsh McNulty Institute for Women's Leadership at Villanova University.
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin is dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and professor of history at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement, and most recently, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality.
Elizabeth Cobbs holds the Melbern G. Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A&M. A New York Times bestselling author, her many books include The Hello Girls: America’s First Women Soldiers, The Tubman Command, and most recently Fearless Women: Feminist Portraits from Abigail Adams to Beyoncé.
Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
Additional Resources
- Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
- Tomiko Brown-Nagin, “Identity Matters: The Case of Judge Constance Baker Motley,” Columbia Law Review
- Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights Movement
- Elizabeth Cobbs, Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots from Abagail Adams to Beyoncé
- Q&A, “Elizabeth Cobbs”, C-SPAN
- Muller v. Oregon (1908)
- National Constitution Center, "The Legality of Abortion Pills," We the People podcast
- Brandon Burnette, "Comstock Act of 1873 (1873)," First Amendment Encyclopedia
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