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Constance Baker Motley ( 1921 – 2005 ), who as a young lawyer represented Martin Luther King, Jr., has Nevisian heritage and owned a home in Brown Hill, Nevis, near her ancestral home.
Bergman contacts Richard Scruggs ( Feore ) and Ron Motley ( McGill ) who, with Mississippi ’ s attorney general Mike Moore, are suing Big Tobacco to reimburse the state for Medicaid funds used to treat people with smoking-related illnesses.
However, the eminent liberal Dutch historian Robert Fruin, ( who was inspired by Motley to do some of his own best work ), and who had reported already in 1856 in the " Westminster Review " Motley's edition on the " Rise of the Dutch republic ", was critical of Motley's tendency to make up " facts " if they made for a good story.
Bill Willis, a defensive lineman who Brown coached at Ohio State, and Marion Motley, a running back who grew up in Canton and played for Brown at Great Lakes, became two of the first black athletes to play professional football when they joined the team in 1946.
In his autobiography, Brown said the play came about by accident in 1946 when Graham botched a play and improvised by making a late handoff to Marion Motley, who ran past the onrushing defenders for a large gain.
The facility was donated to the university by alumnus John Motley Morehead III who invested over $ 3 million in the facility.
John Motley Morehead ( July 20, 1866, Charlotte, North Carolina – December 13, 1923 ) was a North Carolina politician who chaired the state's Republican Party from 1910 until 1916 and served one term ( 1909 – 1911 ) in the United States House of Representatives.
Future Cleveland Browns great and Pro Football Hall of Famer Marion Motley, who along with fellow Hall of Famer Bill Willis broke the color barrier in modern professional football with the Cleveland Browns in 1946, scored the first touchdown in the stadium in 1938.
Between 1976 and 1978 he appeared in the children's series The Ghosts of Motley Hall, in which he played Mr Gudgin, an estate agent who did not want to see the Hall fall into the wrong hands.
Motley credits Buehr with being one of his finest teachers and one who encouraged his style.
They consisted of schoolmates Gladys Horton, Katherine Anderson ( later Katherine Anderson Schnaffer ), Georgeanna Tillman ( later Georgeanna Tillman-Gordon ), Juanita Cowart ( later Juanita Cowart Motley ) and Georgia Dobbins, who was replaced by Wanda Young ( later Wanda Rogers ) prior to the group signing their first deal.
During this time, banker Motley Flint, who was, unlike most bankers at the time, not anti-semitic, helped the brothers pay off their debts.
In joining the Browns in 1946, Willis and Motley were two of four professional football players who broke the color barrier in 1946, a year before Jackie Robinson became Major League Baseball's first black player in the modern era.
He was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1968, the same year as Marion Motley, who was also born on June 5th.
Marion Motley ( June 5, 1920 – June 27, 1999 ) was an American Football fullback and linebacker who played for the Cleveland Browns in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ) and National Football League ( NFL ).
A versatile player who possessed both quickness and size, Motley was a force on both offense and defense.
Motley took the 1954 season off and attempted a comeback in 1955 after the Browns, who still had rights to Motley under his contract, traded him to the Pittsburgh Steelers for Ed Modzelewski.
Blanton Collier, an assistant who took over as the team's head coach after Paul Brown's firing in 1963, said Motley " had no equal as a blocker.
On October 4, 1993, a passer-by expressed concern to Opelika police Sergeant Roger Motley about Lyon's son, who was in a parked car with her common law husband, George Sibley, and looked as though he wanted help.
By Sibley's own account, he was explaining to Motley, who had asked for his driver's license, why he was not required to have one when he observed Motley placing his hand on his service revolver.

Motley and Brown
Brown and six players from the Browns ' AAFC years were elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Graham, Motley, Groza, Lavelli, Willis and center Frank Gatski.
He was probably the largest running back of his time, bigger than most linemen of the day, and a forerunner to large fullbacks like Marion Motley, John Henry Johnson, Jim Brown, often dragging multiple tacklers with him.
Jim Brown, Marion Motley, Franco Harris, and Larry Csonka are considered among the best fullbacks in history, all noted for a tough, grinding running style.
Adolphe Appia, Aleksandra Ekster, Alexandre Benois, Alison Chitty, Antony McDonald, Barry Kay, Boris Aronson, Cyro Del Nero, Daniil Lider, David Borovsky, David Gallo, Edward Gordon Craig, Es Devlin, Ezio Frigerio, Franco Colavecchia, Franco Zeffirelli, George Tsypin, Howard Bay, Inigo Jones, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, Jo Mielziner, Josef Svoboda, Ken Adam, Léon Bakst, Luciano Damiani, Maria Björnson, Ming Cho Lee, Motley, Natalia Goncharova, Nathan Altman, Nicholas Georgiadis, Paul Brown, Oliver Smith, Ralph Koltai, Neil Patel, Robert Brill, Robert Wilson, Russell Patterson, Brian Sidney Bembridge, Santo Loquasto, Sean Kenny, Todd Rosenthal, Robin Wagner, Tony Walton, and Vadym Meller.
For Brown, signing Willis and Motley was nothing unusual.
Motley wrote to Brown asking for a tryout, but Brown declined, saying he already had all the fullbacks he needed.
Ten days later, Brown invited Motley to come, too.
Dogged by injuries and 34 years old, Motley quit before the season began, after Brown said he would otherwise be cut from the team.
After ending his playing career for good, Motley asked Brown about a coaching job with the team.
Brown, however, rejected his overtures, saying Motley should instead look for work at a steel mill – the very career football was his ticket out of.
Running back Jim Brown surpassed Motley's rushing records in the early 1960s, but many of Motley's coaches and fellow players regarded Motley as the better player, in part because of his strength as a blocker.
" There is no comparison between Jim Brown and Marion Motley ," Graham said at a luncheon in Canton in 1964.

Motley and 1948
Willard Motley, a resident artist of Hull House, extracting from Addams ' central theory on symbolic interactionism, used the neighborhood and its people to write his 1948 best seller, Knock on Any Door.
Motley was the AAFC's leading rusher in 1948 and the NFL leader in 1950, when the Browns won another championship.

Motley and called
A section of Motley County called " Whiteflat " was named for the tall white needlegrass which covered the flat prairie land there.
Motley put up an impressive performance, thanks in part to Brown's experimentation with a new play: a delayed handoff later called the draw play.
Motley and Willis, however, were sometimes stepped on and called names during games.
Motley also signed on to coach an all-girl professional football team called the Cleveland Dare Devils in 1967.
In his books The Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football and The New Thinking Man's Guide To Pro Football, football writer Paul Zimmerman of Sports Illustrated called Motley the best player in the history of the sport.
The best-known of these is The Motley Fool Investment Guide, which in 2003 was called the "# 1 All-Time Classic " by investment club members of the NAIC.
( Vince's son started a Motley tribute band called, " The Rock N ' Roll Junkies.
* To promote the album, Skeleteens Beverages in Pasadena, California created a soft drink for the band called, " Motley Brue.
The Motley Fool have recently launched an online newsletter called " Supernova " which chooses from David Gardner's 150 or so stock picks and puts them into two portfolios: " Odyssey " for aggressive investors.

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