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Attorney Pamela Y. Price
Founded Price And Associates in June 1991  with a vision to establish a minority-and woman-owned litigation Firm in Oakland, California. In the 22 years since its inception, the Firm has  
evolved into a premier civil rights practice with a wealth of experience  
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Welcome   
 
This month we celebrate the history of a handful of heroines and pioneers in the American struggle for civil rights.  We are very proud to feature Everett & Jones Barbeque in this issue, a third-generation woman and family owned business in Oakland.  Dorothy King-Jernegan is truly a "legacy owner" following in the footsteps of her Mom and mentoring her four daughters and countless other young women and men.  

This month we feature the story of Constance Baker Motley, a tremendous advocate for justice.  As one of only a handful of African-American women who have had the privilege and honor of arguing a case in the United States Supreme Court, I stand on her shoulders. Judge Motley was the first African-American woman to argue a case in the United States Supreme Court, supported and inspired by her mentor, Thurgood Marshall.  By that time, she had become a legend in her own right.  

John Lewis says that in the late 1950's and 1960s, there were only two lawyers that made white segregationists tremble and gave civil rights workers hope: Thurgood Marshall and Constance Baker Motley.  What an awesome legacy. We should all be so uncompromising and fearless in the face of injustice.  A luta continua!!

 
Best wishes,
Pamela
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Heroines & Pioneers
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Susie King Taylor (1848 - 1912)   

 

         Diane Judith Nash (1938 -      )

 

Patricia Stephens Due (1939 - 2012)


          Thelma Glass (1916 - 2012)

 

Susie King Taylor (1848-1912) was a freedom worker born as a slave in Liberty County, Georgia.  She escaped from slavery in 1862 and within days, began a lifetime of teaching other African-Americans to read and write.  She learned how to read as a slave initially at two secret schools taught by black women. 

Between 1862 and 1866, she served as a nurse with the 33rd United States Colored Infantry Regiment.  She traveled the South with the regiment, teaching many of the soldiers to read and write during their off-duty hours.  As an African-American woman in the South while the battle was raging, she was always in the most incredibly dangerous position.  She was one of thousands of brave African-American women to serve in this capacity.  Had she been captured by the Confederate soldiers, death would have surely been a blessing.  She later wrote a book about her experiences entitled "Reminiscences of My Life In Camp."

Following the Civil War, Ms. Taylor established independent schools throughout the South for former slaves and soldiers.  She started her first school in Savannah Georgia for freed children, then another in Liberty County. In 1874, she relocated to Boston.  She dedicated much of her later life to the Women's Relief Corps., a national organization for female Civil War veterans established in 1873.  She was a tireless advocate for all of the veterans of the Civil War.
 

Diane Judith Nash (1928 - ____)
was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in April 1960.  By 1961, she was one of the most respected students leaders of the sit-in movement in Nashville, Tennessee, working closely with a young John Lewis. 

On May 14, 1961, a mob of white men affiliated with the Klu Klux Klan (KKK) attacked and savagely beat freedom riders at the Birmingham, Alabama Trailways bus station.  The attack shocked the nation by its viciousness. 

Diane Nash took charge of organizing the SNCC students in Nashville who traveled to Birmingham and led the Freedom Rides from Birmingham to Jackson, Alabama. 

Ms. Nash is famous for telling Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth as well as Attorney General Robert Kennedy's assistant that she and her comrades intended to finish the Freedom Ride even if it meant their deaths. 

Immediately after completing that Freedom Ride, she survived the violent siege by the KKK of the First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama on May 21, 1961. 

In 1962, she was convicted and sentenced to two years in prison for teaching non-violent tactics to children in Jackson, Mississippi. 

Despite this unjust persecution, she played a major role in the desegregation of Birmingham in 1963 and the Selma Voting Rights Campaign of 1965.  She returned to her hometown of Chicago in the late 1960s where she lives today.


Patricia Stephens Due (1939-2012) was one of the leading African-American civil rights activists in the 1960s, especially in her home state of Florida.  She joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1959 and served in leadership roles in CORE and the NAACP fighting against segregation. 

In 1960, Ms. Due along with her sister Priscilla, spent 49 days in the nation's first "jail-in" while refusing to pay a fine for sitting in a Woolworth's "Whites Only" lunch counter in Tallahassee, Florida.  Her eyes were damaged by the tear gas used against the protestors and she wore dark glasses for the rest of her life.  After the "jail-in," she and other students who participated traveled the country in speaking tours to publicize the civil rights movement.  She led one of the most dangerous voter registration efforts in the country in northern Florida in the 1960s.  She married civil rights attorney John D. Due, Jr. and they worked together for many years to challenge injustices in Florida.


Thelma McWilliams Glass (1916-2012) was one of the early organizers of the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.  Following the victory in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Ms. Glass and the Women's Political Council called for a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. 

That boycott became the modern "shot heard around the world" as it triggered the end of segregation in public accommodations and launched the public career of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.  Ms. Glass, a graduate of Alabama State University and Columbia University, was the Secretary of the Women's Political Council.  She passed out fliers, alerted the community, and drove and helped organize car-pools for people to get to work.  In 2005, Ms. Glass remarked that "we didn't have time to sit still and be scared."

The Women's Political Council was formed by African-American women at Alabama State College in Montgomery in 1946 and included public school teachers, social workers, nurses and the wives of Black professionals in Montgomery.  Its focus was to end the humiliation inflicted on African-Americans who rode the public buses.  Inspired by the Women's Political Council, several Black women were arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up their seats to whites, but the NAACP chose to highlight the arrest of Rosa Parks, an NAACP secretary and activist for many years.  Under Dr. King's leadership, thousands participated in the boycott, and millions were inspired.  Thelma Glass was truly "fired up and ready to go."


Events Recap


Oakland Running Festival 2013

On March 25, 2013, Price And Associates sponsored a group of four runners in the Oakland Running Festival.  Firm staffers Mari Dani Bandoma, Royl Roberts and Evette Padilla each ran their first half-marathon and had a great time.  They were joined by Attorney Price's husband, Vernon Crawley, who completed his seventh half-marathon!!  


It was a beautiful crisp day, perfect for running the distance.  The Firm also participated in the weekend activities with a booth at the expo on Saturday at the Oakland Convention Center.  Attorney Price was a proud cheerleader and hopes to join the new PYP "team" next year.  

 

 

 

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Oak Marathon




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Attorney Mari Bandoma is cheered on at the start line by Attorney Price.


LCCR Co-Chair Appreciation Luncheon

On March 15, 2013, Attorney Price and her Co-Chair Rohit Singla, along with immediate past Co-Chair George H. Brown hosted an Appreciation Luncheon for the past Co-Chairs of the San Francisco Lawyer's Committee.


The Luncheon featured a riveting conversation with LCCR's Executive Director Kimberly Thomas Rapp, Esq. and Clarence B. Jones on the relevance of Civil Rights in 2013.  

As a close personal friend, legal counsel and advisor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King from 1960 - 1968, Mr. Jones coordinated legal defense strategies for Dr. King as well as other members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC).  

In 1963, Mr. Jones drafted the settlement agreement between the City of Birmingham, Alabama and Dr. King to bring about the end of the demonstrations and desegregation of department stores and public accommodations in that city.  

During Dr. King's arrest in Birmingham, Mr. Jones secretly took Dr. King's handwritten response to eight Birmingham clergymen who had publicly denounced the protests.  This letter was later printed and published as Dr. King's "Letter from A Birmingham Jail."  

Mr. Jones also assisted in writing Dr. King's iconic and legendary "I Have A Dream Speech." Mr. Jones is currently a Scholar Writer in Residence at the MLK Jr. Institute at Stanford University and a Visiting Professor at the University of San Francisco where he is working on establishing a non-violent institute.  

 

 

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                           Attorneys George H. Brown, Pamela, Clarence B. Jones, Rohit Singla,
Kimberly Thomas-Rapp and John L. Burris     
                    

 

 

 

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Famed Civil Rights Attorney Howard Moore & his wife
Attorney Jane Bond Moore listening to Clarence B. Jones

 

Case Highlights

Constance Baker Motley: Legal Heroine

                                                        
Constance Baker Motley

On October 16, 1961, Judge Constance Baker Motley, then a Senior Trial Attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., argued the case of Hamilton v. Alabama in the United States Supreme Court. 

Mr. Hamilton was convicted in Alabama of breaking and entering a home at night with the intent to ravish and sentenced to death.  The Supreme Court held unanimously that the absence of a lawyer when he was arraigned violated his due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and reversed the conviction.It was Judge Motley's first argument in the Supreme Court. 

Between 1961 and 1964, Judge Motley argued nine more cases before the Supreme Court.  She won nine of the ten cases she argued before the Supreme Court.

In the 1940s, 50s and 60s, Judge Motley worked closely with Attorney Thurgood Marshall.  He hired her right out of law school in 1945.  He was her mentor and she credited him with giving her the opportunity and the moral support to succeed.  Judge Motley faced constant condescension as an African-American woman.

She departed the Legal Defense Fund in 1964 after almost twenty (20) years.  She had worked on all of the major school desegregation cases supported by the Legal Defense Fund, including Brown v. Board of Education and Meredith v. Fair.  She wrote the original complaint in the  Brown case and was the only woman on the team of lawyers that argued and won Brown.

While at the Legal Defense Fund, Judge Motley successfully argued several cases involving desegregation of restaurants and recreational facilities throughout the South.  She had represented civil rights warriors across the country, including Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Rev. Charles L. Billups who were arrested and convicted for encouraging students in Birmingham to engage in civil disobedience. Judge Motley successfully argued their case in the Supreme Court and got their convictions reversed.

One of her proudest achievements was that she fought and won the reinstatement of more than 1,000 primary schoolchildren in Birmingham who were suspended or expelled from public schools for participating in civil rights demonstrations.

Following a brief stint in politics in New York, Judge Motley was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1966.  She was initially nominated by Johnson in 1965 to serve on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, however, the opposition to her nomination was so vocal that Johnson withdrew it, and instead appointed her to the District Court.  She was the first African-American woman appointed to the federal judiciary.  In 1982, she became the first woman to serve as Chief Judge of the Southern District, the largest federal trial court in the country.  She served on the court until she passed away on September 28, 2005.
Community Service


Women's Initiative
 

Since 1988, the Women's Initiative organization has provided aspiring low-income women with the dream of business ownership the training and resources to help fulfill that dream. Their mission is to build the entrepreneurial capacity of women to overcome economic and social barriers and achieve self-sufficiency. Through their processes, Women's Initiative has proven that women create jobs for themselves and others as well as directly contributing to the economic growth of communities by enabled them to start or expand their business.

 

Women's Initiative also believes in ongoing support - through one of their programs called SuccessLink, graduates at all levels of business are connected with influential women in business, seminars and coaching. Scholarships are available for very low-income women to ensure that no one is turned away for lack of financial resources.

 

Women's Initiative administers a revolving loan fund, disbursing loans ranging from $1000 to $25,000, and links women with asset building opportunities, including matched savings accounts called Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) where participants' have the potential to double their savings for capital investments.

www.womensinitiative.org 

  

   

Other local organizations that provide enrichment for women include:

 

 

                                       

Black Women Stirring the Waters                                                                     Urban University  

 


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