29th Colored Regiment Monument
Criscuolo Park, Chapel and James Streets, New Haven, CT 06513African American Memorial
Ancient Burying Ground, 60 Gold Street (Main and Gold Streets, adjacent to Center Church), Hartford, CT 06103Amistad Center for Art & Culture
Wadsworth Atheneum, 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT 06103Ancient Burying Ground
Main and Marsh Streets, Wethersfield, CT 06109Archer Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church
320 Hayden Station Road, Windsor, CT 06095Benjamin Trumbull House
80 Broadway Street, Colchester, CT 06415Boce W. Barlow Jr. House
31 Canterbury Street, Hartford, CT 06112Boston Trowtrow Gravesite
Old Burying Ground, 69 Main Street, Norwich, CT 06360Bristol (Bristow) Gravesite
Old Center Burying Yard, approximately 28 North Main Street, West Hartford, CT 06107Cesar and Lowis Peters Archaeological Site
Hebron Village Center, Hebron, CT 06248Charles Ethan Porter House
17 Spruce Street, Vernon, CT 06066Charles W. Morgan Whaling Vessel
Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Avenue , Stonington, CT 06355Constance Baker Motley House
8 Garden Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Constance Baker Motley (1921-2005) was a trailblazing lawyer in the forefront of many major civil rights cases throughout the mid-20th century. After graduating from Columbia Law School in 1946, Motley was hired by Thurgood Marshall to work as a law clerk for the NAACP. In 1950, Motley wrote the draft complaint for the landmark case, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which ended segregation in schools. Over the following decade, she successfully argued numerous other civil rights cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the first African American woman to do so. In 1964, Motley was the first woman elected to the New York State Senate and, in 1965, the first woman to become president of the Borough of Manhattan. In addition to her accomplishments as an attorney, Motley was the first African American woman to be appointed a federal judge of the United States, in 1966. She became a chief judge in 1982 and served the Southern District of New York as a senior judge for the rest of her life. Motley made outstanding strides in the movement for social justice and equality during the 20th century and, in 1998, she was inducted into the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame. Motley’s childhood home is privately owned and not open to the public.
Sources:- Photo of Constance Baker Motley by Chester Higgins
