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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Noreen Marcus
Constance Baker Motley, who along with Thurgood Marshall provided much of the legal muscle for the civil rights movement before becoming, in 1966, America's first black female federal judge, died Tuesday in New York, a Manhattan court official confirmed Wednesday. She was 84 and still a working member of the judiciary.
"She was one of the civil rights luminaries," said U.S. Magistrate Judge Randolph Treece of Albany, N.Y. "She was ahead of her time....
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