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Black women of this period continued to break barriers. Historian Annette Gordon-Reed became the first Black woman editor of the Harvard Law Review in 1982. [14] In 2021, there were 28 Black women law school deans in the United States, an all time high. [15] In 2018, 19 Black women were elected to the Harris County courts in Houston. [16]
[1] [2] She obtained a role with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund as a staff attorney in 1946 after receiving her law degree, and continued her work with the organization for more than twenty years. [3] She was the first Black woman to argue at the Supreme Court [4] and argued 10 landmark
Research by Robert Spitzer found that every law journal article discussing the Second Amendment through 1959 "reflected the Second Amendment affects citizens only in connection with citizen service in a government organized and regulated militia." Only beginning in 1960 did law journal articles begin to advocate an "individualist" view of gun ...
The 5–4 ruling found that the Second Amendment protects the individual’s right to bear arms for self-defense, and overturned a Washington, D.C., law that prohibited people from keeping ...
African-American women began experiencing the "Anti-Black" women's suffrage movement. [12] The National Woman Suffrage Association considered the Northeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs to be a liability to the association due to Southern white women's attitudes toward black women getting the vote. [13]
In this case the United States Supreme Court held that Illinois constitutionally denied law licenses to women, because the right to practice law was not one of the privileges and immunities guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Illinois Supreme Court affirmed. [non-primary source needed] 1874
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Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment. The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when early ...