Rebels in law : voices in history of Black women lawyers / edited J. Clay Smith Jr.
1998
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Title
Rebels in law : voices in history of Black women lawyers / edited J. Clay Smith Jr.
Published
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1998]
Copyright
©1998
Call Number
KF299.A35 R43 1998
ISBN
0472108832 (cloth : acid-free paper)
Description
xviii, 323 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)37878748
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Law Is No Mystery to Black Women / J. Clay Smith, Jr.
1
Pt. 1
Law and Its Call to Black Women
9
Miss Lutie Lytle Speaks in 1897 / Lutie A. Lytle
11
Law and Its Call to Women / Zephyr Abigail Moore (Ramsey)
13
Legal Profession Followed by Nation's Best Known Socialites / Edith Spurlock Sampson
16
Women in the Law / Ollie May Cooper
24
Forty-five Years a Woman Lawyer / Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
26
Jet-Propelled into the Law / Mahala Ashley Dickerson
29
Sheer Determination Brought Me Through / Glendora McIlwain Putnam
32
Forty Years a Lawyer / Veva Izelle Young
34
Lawyers Are Leaders in the Community / Jean Murrell Capers
36
Law Teacher, Lawyer and Judge / Margaret Austin Haywood
38
Some Recollections of My Career / Constance Baker Motley
41
Pt. 2
The Power of Black Women
47
Women Lawyers Must Balk Both Color and Sex Bias / Ruth Whitehead Whaley
49
Constitutional Law and Black Women / Pauli Murray
52
Women Must Wield Their Power for the Sake of Justice / Patricia Roberts Harris
60
The Power of Black Women to Tell Their Stories / Anita Faye Hill
64
The Black Woman: Who Represents Her? / Issie Lee Shelton Jenkins
70
Pt. 3
Legal Education, the Legal Academy, and the Legal Profession
77
Pauli Murray's Appeal: For Admission to Harvard Law School / Pauli Murray
79
Second Black Woman at University of Michigan's Law School / Lucia Theodosia Thomas
84
Breaking New Ground with Grace: The University of Michigan's First Black Woman Law Graduate / Jane Cleo Marshall Lucas
86
Neither a Whisper Nor a Shout / Joyce Anne Hughes
90
Antioch's Fight against Neutrality in Legal Education / Jean Camper Cahn
102
There Is a Future for Black Lawyers / Arthenia Lee Joyner
106
Problems within the Legal Profession / Cora T. Walker
111
Pt. 4
On Presidents and Judges
113
The Most Dangerous Election in History / Juanita Jackson Mitchell
115
Surviving the Reagan Years / Mary Frances Berry
117
President Clinton's Doubt; Lani Guinier's Certainty / Lani Guinier
123
Robert Bork Should Sit on High Court / Jewell Rogers Stradford Lafontant (Mankarious)
128
Clarence Thomas Should Not Sit on High Court / Patricia A. King
131
In Clarence Thomas You Hope for a Miracle / Adjoa Artis Asantewaah Aiyetoro
137
Thurgood Marshall Spoke for Humble People / Karen Hastie Williams
139
Pt. 5
Race, Equality, Justice, and Freedom
141
Racism Is a Deadly Force in America / Helen Elsie Austin
144
Democracy and Race / Mabel Dole Haden
147
The Confederate Flag as Racist Symbolism / Carol E. Moseley-Braun
150
The Issue of Race / Eleanor Holmes Norton
156
Black Strategies: Responding to Thomas Sowell. I Know Where You're Coming from, But... / Pauli Murray
162
White Racism; Black Dissent / Frankie Muse Freeman
165
African Americans Must Reject Anti-Semitism / Elaine Ruth Jones
167
Black Political Power / Gloria E. A. Toote
169
The Negro Woman in the Quest for Equality / Pauli Murray
172
Female Liberation and Human Survival / Barbara Mae Watson
178
When American Democracy Becomes a Sham / Jane Edna Harris Hunter
182
The Underdeveloped Resource / Patricia Roberts Harris
186
Justice and Values in Government / Barbara Mae Watson
190
Erosion of Civil Liberties / Barbara Charline Jordan
196
Political Correctness: Professor Linda S. Greene vs. Robert Bork / Linda Sheryl Greene
201
The United States Owes Reparations to Its Black Citizens / Daisy G. Collins
204
Give Colored Women the Right to Vote / Mary Ann Shadd Carey
211
The Necessity of Universal Suffrage / Georgia Huston Jones Ellis
213
The Role of Law in Effecting Social Change / Constance Baker Motley
217
New Civil Rights Demands: White Resistance / Frankie Muse Freeman
221
Dynamics of Change / Marian Wright Edelman
224
Minority Coalitions to Secure Civil Rights / Margaret Bush Wilson
228
Freedom of Gay Citizens from Discrimination / Julia Cooper Mack
231
Pt. 6
Crime and Criminal Justice
234
The Female Inmate / Consuelo Bland Marshall
237
Our Present Violent Crime and Drug Policies Conceived out of Fear and Politics / Elaine Ruth Jones
242
Pt. 7
International Concerns
246
Pioneer at the Department of State / Barbara Mae Watson
249
Human Rights and Social Relations / Barbara Mae Watson
251
Citation for Persons Killed in Service of the United Nations / Edith Spurlock Sampson
253
Speaking Out against Duplicity in Foreign Policy / Arnette Rhinehart Hubbard
255
Women and Minorities in International Law / Goler Teal Butcher
257
The Japanese Buraku Problem: A Foreigner's Perspective / Althea T. L. Simmons
260
App. A
The First Black Women's Legal Sorority
267
App. B
Pioneering Facts about Black Women Lawyers and Law Teachers
277
App. C
U.S. Census: The Number of Women Lawyers by Race and Nationality in Each State/Select Territories and the Combined Total of Male Lawyers (all races), 1950-90
284
Contributors
299
Index
315