On Sept. 14, 1921, Constance Baker Motley was born. She went on to become the first Black appointed federal judge, as well as a Civil Rights activist and state senator. She helped write briefs in the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954; successfully won enrollment for the nine black high school students known as the “Little Rock Nine” at racially segregated Central High in Little Rock, Ark. in 1957.