îl!C'JJortlanò © bseruer O cto b er 5. 2 0 0 5 P age B3 L aw & J ustice Civil Rights Leader, Judge Remembered America while touching in her 1992 book, "In My Place.” off resistance across the But she would "suddenly threw a country and leading to curve ball with so much skill and som e o f the ra c ia l power that she would knock them off their chair.” clashes of the 1960s. Motley also argued the 1957 case In the early 1960s, she personally argued the in Little Rock. Ark., that led Presi well the first one elected Meredith case as well dent Eisenhower to call in federal to the New York state as the suit that resulted troops to protect nine black stu Senate. in the enrollment of two dents at Central High. Motley, who would Also in the early 1960s, she suc black students at the have celebrated her 40th cessfully argued for 1,000 school University of Georgia. a n n iv e rsa ry on the “Mrs. M otley’s style children to be reinstated in Birming bench next year, died could be deceptive, of ham, Ala., after the local school Sept.28 o f congestive Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. chats with his wife ten allowing a witness boardexpelled them for demonstrat heart failure. She was 84. Coretta (left) and civil rights champion to get away with one lie ing. She represented "Freedom Rid Motley won nine of Constance Baker Motley before the start o f a after another without ers” who rode buses to test the 10 civil rights cases she Southern Christian Leadership Conference challenging him,” one Supreme C ourt's 1960 ruling pro argued before the Su Constance Baker Motley banquet on Aug. 9, 1965, in Birmingham, Ala. of the students, journal hibiting segregation in interstate preme Court. She spent two decades with the 1950, she prepared the draft com- all believed that our time had come ist Charlayne Hunter-Gault, wrote transportation. N A A CP’s Legal Defense and Edu plaintforwhat would become Brown and that we had to go forward.” The Supreme Court ruled in her cational Fund, started out there in v. Board of Education. In her autobiography, "Equal and her colleagues’ favor in 1954 in 1945 as a law clerk to Thurgood Marshall, then its chief counsel and Justice Under Law,” Motley said a decision credited with toppling later a Supreme Court justice. In defeat never entered her mind. "We p u b lic sch o o l se g re g a tio n in M ich ael E. Harper, Sr. Advocate toppled segregation in court (A P) — W hen she was 15, C on stan ce B aker M otley was turned away from a public beach because she was black. It was only then - even though her mother was active in the NAACP - that the teenager really became interested in civil rights. She went to law school and found herself lighting racism in landmark segregation cases including Brown v. Board of Education, the Central High School case in Arkansas and the case that let James Meredith enroll at the University of Missis sippi. Motley also broke barriers her self: She was the first black woman appointed to the federal bench, as Unity Sought after Katrina Racial Imbalance on Death Row Millions More March Supported Less value placed on minority victims AP) — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said the suffer ing of Hurricane Katrina victims has brought black Americans to gether. Farrakhan said that ju st as Democrats and Republicans came together after the Sept. 11,2001 terrorist attacks; black Americans of all religions must join forces to help hurricane victims. “Katrina is our reason,” he said at a church last week, urging the hundreds of attendees to trans form any anger into “construc tive energy to channel the move ment.” The movement is his Millions More Movement, formerly the Million Man March, which will commemorate its 10th anniversary with a Saturday, Oct. 15 rally on the National Mall in Washington, DC. The rally will include women, unlike the 1995 M illion Man March, which drew thousands of people to Washington. Farrakhan said the upcoming rally will in clude a range of black organiza tions and religious groups. Clifford Kelley, a former Chi cago alderman who hosts a radio talk show, said those who sup port the Millions More Movement and Farrakhan do not need to be Muslim. “We should all be involved in this,” Kelley said. “This is not about religion, it is about unity.” Farrakhan has spent the last several months touring cities to encourage people to travel to the nation’s capital for the march. (AP) — M ore condem ned men and women are on C alifornia’s death row for killing w hites than for m urdering people o f any other race, despite there being more black and Hispanic m urder vic tim s, according to a new study. The study in the Santa Clara Law Review tallied the races of California homicide victims in the 1990s. It co n clu d ed susp ects w ho m urdered w hites w ere alm ost- four tim es m ore likely to be se n tenced to death than those w ho killed H ispanics, and three tim es m ore likely to be sen tenced to d eath than th o se w ho k ille d blacks. “T o put it bluntly, th e re ’s ap paren tly d iffe re n t values being placed on victim s from d iffe r ent racial and ethnic g ro u p s,” said N o rth e a ste rn U n iv ersity crim inal ju stice professor Glenn P ierce, a co -au th o r o f the study. " T h a t’s w hat the pattern w ould s u g g e s t.” W hen it cam e to the race o f the defendant, the study concluded race did not contribute signifi- cantly to w hether prosecutors sought the death penalty or ju rors recom m ended death. Instead, it was the race o f the victim that was param ount. Pierce said his conclusions mir rored studies in other states. T he study a lso n o ted that som e co u n tie s, p a rtic u la rly ru ral o n e s , is s u e d d e a th s e n te n c e s d is p ro p o rtio n a te ly to m etro p o litan areas. “The decision o f who will live and who will die in California turns on arbitrary and unlawful factors such as the race and ethnicity of the m urder victim or the location where the m urder was com m it ted,” said Ellen Kreitzberg, a Santa Clara university professor. In 1987, the U.S.SupremeCourt, ruling in a Georgia case, said stud ies like C alifo rn ia’s were not g ro u n d s fo r re v e rsin g d eath cases, unless racial bias could be proven by an individual defen dant. C alifornia has 645 inm ates on death row. It has executed 11 people since reinstating the death penalty in 1977. A r '24'~ì IN IU IA M C I 9045 SWBarbur, Suite 109 Portland, OR97219 U»«B» v » c a J STATE FARM INSURANCE COMPANIES HOME OFFICES: BLOOMINGTON. 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