Whitney of Petty Indignities

Whitney Motley was sent to Mississippi by the ink fund because they thought she might be spared some of the racialized violence that Thurgood Marshall and Bob Carter regularly ran into. She suffered horrible indignities at the hands of the white bar and Mississippi and in other places who were defending the state. The lawyer would not call her Mrs Motley, which was the way in which a respectable woman would have been addressed with her married name with Mrs. He wouldn't call her anything. And it's so horrible, the way he disrespects her that the judge in the case who himself is a segregationist says, you got to do a little bit better. So the solution is for him