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Writer and educator. John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, associate professor; founder and director of the Law and Policy Group, Inc. Previously, worked as a civil rights attorney for organizations, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Guest on television and radio programs.
MEMBER:Dramatist Guild, Mystery Writers of America, National Association of Black Journalists, PEN American Center, American Bar Foundation (fellow), United Nations Association of New York, Women’s City Club of New York, Alpha Kappa Alpha.
AWARDS:Ida B. Wells-Barnett Justice Award, New York County Lawyers; Woman of Excellence in Law award, Wiley College; Ethel Lawrence Trailblazer Award, NAACP; Community Action award, Black Star News.
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Also, author of plays, including Diversity, My Juilliand, Jeanine, Waverly Place, and Killing Me Softly. Contributor of a syndicated weekly column in the Milwaukee Courier; contributor of articles to publications, including the St. Louis American.
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Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a writer and educator. Previously, she worked as a civil rights attorney for organizations, including the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. She is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Browne-Marshall is an associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in New York, NY. She has appeared as a guest on television and radio programs. Browne-Marshall has been recognized for her work with awards from organizations, including the New York County Lawyers group, Wiley College, the NAACP, and Black Star News.
Race, Law, and American Society
In 2007, Browne-Marshall released her first book, Race, Law, and American Society: 1607-Present. A second edition of the volume was published in 2013.
In Race, Law, and American Society, Browne-Marshall analyzes differences in how people of different races have been treated by justice authorities throughout American history. She examines court cases from the colonial era to contemporary times, highlighting examples of discrimination. Browne-Marshall explains how these instances of discrimination impacted race relations in the U.S. Topics in the book include civil rights, voting rights, private property, education, and the military.
The Voting Rights War
Browne-Marshall comments on efforts to limit minorities’ ability to vote, as well as the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in her 2016 book, The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for Justice. She discusses the origins of the NAACP, which were connected to 1908 riot involving a voting rights dispute in Springfield, Illinois. The group’s first leaders were white people, but leadership eventually was passed on to African Americans. Browne-Marshall notes the the NAACP has made securing equal voting rights for minorities a key part of its mission. The group has been involved with almost all of the joint rights cases that have been tried in front of the Supreme Court. Browne-Marshall analyzes important cases in voting rights history, both before and after the establishment of the NAACP. The earliest of the cases she examines in Plessy v. Ferguson, which was tried in 1896. She goes on to profile subsequent cases up through Shelby County, AL v. Holder from 2013. Browne-Marshall also profiles influential historical figures in the fight for voting rights, including Thurgood Marshall, Charles Hamilton Houston, and Moorfield Storey.
A Publishers Weekly reviewer described The Voting Rights War as “passionate, comprehensive.” The same reviewer suggested: “With vivid descriptions of voter intimidation, murders, riots, and lynchings, this work emphasizes that ‘freedom is not free.'”
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Publishers Weekly, August 29, 2016, review of The Voting Rights War: The NAACP on the Ongoing Struggle for Justice, p. 84.
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Celeste Bateman & Associates Web site, http://www.celestebateman.com/ (May 22, 2017), author profile.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice Web site, http://www.jjay.cuny.edu/ (May 22, 2017), author faculty profile.*
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall received the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Justice Award for her work with civil rights and women's justice issues. Her forthcoming book is titled "Black Women: Salem Witch Trials to Civil Rights Activists - A Legal History."
A former civil rights attorney, Browne-Marshall is an Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) teaching Constitutional Law, Race and the Law, and Evidence. She is a member of the Gender Studies faculty of John Jay College as well as a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Active nationally and internationally, Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a member of the United Nations Association of NY, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and the Women's City Club.
A free-lance journalist and an award-winning playwright, her most recent play is titled "Diversity" and examines marriage choices. Her other plays include the full-length drama on Alzheimer's disease "My Juilliard," one act plays "Jeanine" and "Waverly Place" as well as the full-length murder mystery "Killing Me Softly." She is a member of the Dramatist Guild, Mystery Writers of America, National Association of Black Journalists, and PEN American Center.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is the Founder/Director of The Law and Policy Group, Inc., a nonprofit organization. The Law and Policy Group, Inc. is a think tank for the community which produces the "Report on the Status of Black Women and Girls(R)," the only annual national report on the state of Black females in America.
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Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY). She also teaches classes in Race and the Law, Evidence, and Gender and Justice. She a former civil rights attorney who litigated cases for Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc.. Professor Browne-Marshall is a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She addresses audiences nationally. Gloria J. Browne-Marshall has spoken on issues of race and the Constitution in Ghana, Rwanda, England, Wales, Canada, and before the United Nations in Geneva.
Professor Browne-Marshall is the author of many articles and several books including "Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present," which includes a chapter on Voting Rights and Race. Her forthcoming book is titled "Black Women and the Law: Salem Witch Trials to Civil Rights Activists." She is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. and the Women's City Club of New York.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall has been the recipient of several honors including the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Justice Award for her work with civil rights and women's justice issues and the Wiley College Woman of Excellence in Law award. An award-winning playwright of seven produced plays, her most recent play "Diversity" examines marriage choices. She is a member of the Dramatist Guild, Mystery Writers of America, National Association of Black Journalists, PEN American Center, and the National Press Club.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College (NYC) and a member of the Gender Studies faculty. Prior to academia, she was a Civil Rights attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Community Legal Services of Philadelphia, and NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF).
Gloria is the author of Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present and The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts. Her forthcoming book is Black Women and the Law. She has written extensively on legal issues of concern to women, children and people of color.
Gloria is a legal correspondent reporting on international as well as domestic legal issues including the U.S. Supreme Court specializing in issues related to women, children, minorities and immigrants as well as criminal justice. Gloria covered the 2012 Presidential campaign and President Obama’s receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
Her weekly column is published in the Milwaukee Courier and syndicated in newspapers in New York City, Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta and St. Louis, MO. Her articles on Race and the Law appear in the St. Louis American. She is an award-winning journalist and a member of the National Press Club. She has provided commentary for BBC America, CNN, ABC, NPR, C-Span as well as regular legal commentary for WVON (Chicago), WPFW (Washington, DC), and WBAI (NYC). Her radio program “Law of the Land” which began as a written column in the Milwaukee Courier, a Black newspaper, and published in the Black Star News, Dallas Weekly, Amsterdam News and St. Louis American, had its radio debut on WBAI 99.5 FM (running on Fridays at 7:30AM at drivetime mornings in the NY tri-state region) in November 2013.
Gloria Browne-Marshall is Founder/Director of The Law and Policy Group, Inc., a 501(c)3 ‘think tank’ for the community which publishes “The Report on the Status of Black Women and Girls,” the only ongoing report on the state of Black females in America.
Gloria is the recipient of the NAACP Ethel Lawrence Trailblazer Award, Association of Black Women Attorney’s award, the New York County Lawyers’ Ida B. Wells award for work on gender and race issues, the Woman of Excellence in Law award from Wiley College (Texas), and the Community Action award from Black Star News. She speaks nationally and internationally about the protection of vulnerable groups under law.
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is associate professor of constitutional law at John Jay College (CUNY) and a civil rights attorney. She is the author of Race, Law, and American Society. Browne-Marshall is an award-winning legal correspondent and a playwright. A member of the National Press Club, her weekly columns on the US Supreme Court are syndicated nationwide. She has provided commentary for BBC, CNN, CBS, NPR, C-SPAN, and more.
QUOTED: "passionate, comprehensive."
"With vivid descriptions of voter intimidation, murders, riots, and lynchings, this work emphasizes that 'freedom is not free.'"
The Voting Rights War: The NAACP on the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
263.35 (Aug. 29, 2016): p84.
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The Voting Rights War: The NAACP on the Ongoing Struggle for Justice
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall. Rowman & Littlefield, $36 (224p) ISBN 978-1-4422-6689-6
Browne-Marshall (Race, Law, and American Society), an associate constitutional law professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, delivers a passionate, comprehensive history of the NAACP and its crucial role in the still ongoing battle for voting rights. Founded in response to the Springfield (Ill.) Riot of 1908 and initially led by white liberals, the NAACP, as Browne-Marshall shows, focused on voter rights from the start. She highlights how the NAACP's involvement in nearly every voting rights case argued before the Supreme Court speaks to its effective tripartite strategy of "litigation, legislation, and protest." With considerable insight, Browne-Marshall guides readers through a century of pivotal legal struggles: 1896's Plessy v. Ferguson', poll taxes and literacy tests; whites-only primaries; the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965; and the present-day photo ID laws, voter dilution efforts, and gutting of certain voter protections in the 2013 Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder decision. She also shows the Supreme Court's changing makeup through the decades and resurrects the people--Moorfield Storey, Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Mary White Ovington--who struggled on the NAACP's behalf. With vivid descriptions of voter intimidation, murders, riots, and lynchings, this work emphasizes that "freedom is not free." (Oct.)
Source Citation (MLA 8th Edition)
"The Voting Rights War: The NAACP on the Ongoing Struggle for Justice." Publishers Weekly, 29 Aug. 2016, p. 84. General OneFile, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=ITOF&sw=w&u=schlager&v=2.1&id=GALE%7CA462236497&it=r&asid=0740b931425d3c264137bd774f302798. Accessed 8 May 2017.
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