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The First Black Woman In America Is Admitted To Practice Law

Charlotte E. Ray

On this date in 1872, Charlotte E. Ray became the first Black woman admitted to practice before the district Supreme Court (Washington D.C.).

To Become a Lawyer

Reference:

NYWBA.org

OAG.gov

The African American Atlas
Black History & Culture an Illustrated Reference
by Molefi K. Asanta and Mark T. Mattson
Macmillan USA, Simon & Schuster, New York
ISBN 0-02-864984-2

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Poetry Corner

There shall be no more songs of soft magnolias that blow like aromatic winds through southern vales, no more praises of daffodils chattering the winds fluttering tune- and no eulogies... BLACK POWER by Alvin Saxon (Ojenke).
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