she was in legislature overlapped with shirley chisholm and was a model for people like shirley chisholmnd other women who came after her in new york politics also was a classmate of bella abzug, who, of course, was elected first woman elected to congress from new york. and so she was a part of a network of women, early politicos sometimes prevailed. the liberal positions that they took, but not always. and so i think that not winning is a an important legacy of its own. when she was standing up for positions that years, many later, others have come around. so she was she was ahead of her time on those criminal justice issues. so i think that was our last question. i want to thank you so much, dean brown nagin, for sharing the story of constance baker motley's extraordinary life and career with us. this certainly was inspiring conversation. and thank you all for being with us today as we celebrate the 190th anniversary of the library of congress, the largest law library in the world. i hope you it's my honor to present to you the distinguished chairman of the house republican conference.

she was in legislature overlapped with shirley chisholm and was a model for people like shirley chisholmnd other women who came after her in new york politics also was a classmate of bella abzug, who, of course, was elected first woman elected to congress from new york. and so she was a part of a network of women, early politicos sometimes prevailed. the liberal positions that they took, but not always. and so i think that not winning is a an important legacy of its own. when she was standing up for positions that years, many later, others have come around. so she was she was ahead of her time on those criminal justice issues. so i think that was our last question. i want to thank you so much, dean brown nagin, for sharing the story of constance baker motley's extraordinary life and career with us. this certainly was inspiring conversation. and thank you all for being with us today as we celebrate the 190th anniversary of the library of congress, the largest law library in the world. i hope you

organization of women and she helped organize the black women's caucus, and she was colleagues with shirley chisholm and marlee evers. but she was a very conservative woman and they would have called her a conservative feminist. she was antiabortion, which is interesting. because before she was sterilized she had helped other women access abortion services in mississippi. she was anti-birth control, too. kind of really blew the minds of all feminist women in the late 1960's and early 1970's. what do you mean? she was very conservative. i do not think she looked at gender as a burden. it was who she was and she was fighting as a woman for rights for herself and everybody. and she was particularly protective of black men because she watched the violence that was disproportionately visited upon black men in mississippi. she was very protective of her husband and other men in the community. ms. ulaby: any other questions will have to be addressed to the authors as they sign books after the session. i wanted to say, at a moment when these forces of misogyny and white supremacy feel on the rise, when the

organization of women and she helped organize black women's caucus and she was colleagues with shirley chisholm and betty fred and and medgar evers but she was a very conservative woman and they would have called her a conservative dentist because she was antiabortion and which is interesting because before she was sterilized she had helped other women access abortion services in mississippi and she was anti-birth control to which just kind of really blue the minds of all those feminist women in the 60s and dearly 70s like what do you mean so i don't think she looked at gender as a burden, it was nd who she was and she was dfighting as a woman for rights for herself and everybody and she was protective of black men because she watched the violence that was disproportionately visited upon black men in mississippi so she was very protective of her husband and other men in the community . >> other questions will have to be addressed to the authors as they find books for the session. so much on the rise when the political climate feel so daunting in many ways . thank you for bringing the question a

so i went back to that that i had learned about angela davis and about so many sothers, about shirley chisholm and about harriet tubman. i went back to that andwas able to see myself in them a whole different way . that helped me over the years but also i kind of had to put it on the back burner for a while, caring about how i was feeling and my focus turns to keeping my son alive and raising my daughter, keeping d my daughter safe so it turned into that and so that way for years just like hyper focused on that but it was just this movement after michael brown waskilled in 2014, it was the movement building . it was learning together that we put so much back into one another. so whether we're fighting to get accountability for every single person that lost their lives at the hands of police, we were fighting for ourselves and i was able to see this is what you need because i understand you as a black girl. because sandra bland was a blackwoman . because we got to remember that we can get lost in this conversation like you've got to be holding to. >> exactly. so this fitsnicely to what i want t

conversation that she just -- her speech that she delivered, i kept hearing the late, great shirley chisholm run for president in 1972. she said, being black and being a woman was a double whammy. and she also -- right. ketanji brown jackson spoke to that. and she also said, if you don't have a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. right. she is in her gown in the high court with her seat. it's not a folding chair. and she's giving opinion, something that the other justice, clarence thompson, the other black person on the court hasn't been doing for years. we heard about prince recently from him. but in the first day, we were so mesmerized by her decision and her conversation on matters that impact all america. and she has a seat at the table. >> and she's already made her presence known. but i want to talk about you a little bit, april, because you're being modest in not talking about yourself and talking about kamala harris and ketanji brown jackson. but you have been a trailblazer at the white house. and i have seen this personally the way donald trump went after you, went after other

went back to that that i'd learned about angela davis, you know, about so many others, about shirley chisholm and about harriet tubman. i went back to that and was able to see like myself in them a whole different way. so that has helped me over the years, but also i had to put it on the back burner for a while like even caring about how i was feeling and just my focus really turned to keeping my son alive and raising my daughter, keeping my daughter safe. so it turned into that and so then that went for years like this kind of like hyper focused on that. this movement after michael brown was killed in ferguson in 2014, it was through movement building. it was through learning together that we put so much back into one another. as we were fighting for black lives, as we're fighting to get accountability for every single person that lost their life at the hands of police, as we are fighting for ourselves and i was able to see like hey, this is what you need because she was a black girl, you know because sandra bland was a black woman. like because we got, you know, we got to remember that we c

about shirley chisholm, about her. tubman.went back to that and was able to see myself in them a whole different way. that has helped me over the years. but also, i kind of had to put on the back burner forou a while even caring about how i was feeling in my focus really turned to keeping my son alive and keeping raising my daughter and keeping my daughter safe. turn into that. that went for years kind of like hyper focused on that. but it was through a movement after michael brown was killed inin ferguson in 2014. it was through movement building. it was learning together that we put so much back into one another. as were fighting for black lives as were fighting to get accountability for every single person that lost their lives at the hands of police.ng is there fighting for all of that were fighting for ourselves. i was able to see this isus what you need because jones was a black girl. cassandra brown was a black woman. because we have got remember that we can get lost in this conversation, you've got to be whole too. >>