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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]
Fenwick was born in Manhattan, New York City, on May 24, 1932. [1] Her parents, John and Hilda Fenwick, were immigrants to the United States from Trinidad. [1] She earned a bachelor's degree in history from Barnard College in 1953, [4] [5] before enrolling at Harvard Law School. [1]
Lutie A. Lytle (November 19, 1875 [1] - November 12, 1955 [2]) was an American lawyer who was one of the first African-American women in the legal profession. Having been admitted to the state bar of Tennessee in 1897, she also practiced law in Topeka, Kansas, and Brooklyn, New York.
In 1941, she began attending Howard University law school. Murray was the only woman in her law school class, and she became aware of sexism at the school, which she labeled "Jane Crow"—alluding to Jim Crow, the system of racial discriminatory state laws oppressing African Americans. [49]
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (born May 5, 1959) is an American civil rights advocate and a scholar of critical race theory.She is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues.
Charlotte E. Ray (January 13, 1850 – January 4, 1911) was an American lawyer. She was the first black American female lawyer in the United States. [1] [2] Ray graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1872.
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While an undergraduate at Roanoke College, she organized a scholarship fund for black students that by 2002 had an endowment of $350,000. [4] She finished a Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1989. [3] In 2000, she earned a Master of Legal Studies from Yale Law School. [6]