As Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination to the Supreme Court was announced, Black women felt a profound sense of pride and appreciation for the decades of struggle of Black women to be seen and heard in the nation’s most important institutions
that she struggled to find work when she applied to law firms in Poughkeepsie, where her family lived. “I was rejected on account of being a woman, but I’m sure that race also played a part,” she said.
In her autobiography, “Equal Justice Under Law,” Motley wrote about Eastland’s campaign against her nomination. “In a speech on the Senate floor, where he would be protected from libel and slander suits, Eastland said he opposed my nomination because he believed I was a Communist.
Means, whose scholarship has focused on Black women in the judiciary, notes that the path to the Supreme Court, narrow for any individual, is almost impassable for Black women. In modern times, most appointees to the court have come from the Ivy Leagues and have clerked for federal judges.
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