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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Law Is No Mystery to Black Women | |
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| Law and Its Call to Black Women | |
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| Miss Lutie Lytle Speaks in 1897 | |
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| Law and Its Call to Women | |
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| Legal Profession Followed by Nation's Best Known Socialites | |
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| Women in the Law | |
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| Forty-five Years a Woman Lawyer | |
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| Jet-Propelled into the Law | |
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| Sheer Determination Brought Me Through | |
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| Forty Years a Lawyer | |
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| Lawyers Are Leaders in the Community | |
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| Law Teacher, Lawyer and Judge | |
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| Some Recollections of My Career | |
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| The Power of Black Women | |
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| Women Lawyers Must Balk Both Color and Sex Bias | |
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| Constitutional Law and Black Women | |
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| Women Must Wield Their Power for the Sake of Justice | |
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| The Power of Black Women to Tell Their Stories | |
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| The Black Woman: Who Represents Her? | |
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| Legal Education, the Legal Academy, and the Legal Profession | |
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| Pauli Murray's Appeal: For Admission to Harvard Law School | |
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| Second Black Woman at University of Michigan's Law School | |
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| Breaking New Ground with Grace: The University of Michigan's First Black Woman Law Graduate | |
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| Neither a Whisper Nor a Shout | |
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| Antioch's Fight against Neutrality in Legal Education | |
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| There Is a Future for Black Lawyers | |
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| Problems within the Legal Profession | |
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| On Presidents and Judges | |
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| The Most Dangerous Election in History | |
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| Surviving the Reagan Years | |
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| President Clinton's Doubt; Lani Guinier's Certainty | |
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| Robert Bork Should Sit on High Court | |
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| Clarence Thomas Should Not Sit on High Court | |
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| In Clarence Thomas You Hope for a Miracle | |
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| Thurgood Marshall Spoke for Humble People | |
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| Race, Equality, Justice, and Freedom | |
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| Racism Is a Deadly Force in America | |
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| Democracy and Race | |
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| The Confederate Flag as Racist Symbolism | |
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| The Issue of Race | |
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| Black Strategies: Responding to Thomas Sowell. I Know Where You're Coming from, But... | |
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| White Racism; Black Dissent | |
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| African Americans Must Reject Anti-Semitism | |
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| Black Political Power | |
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| The Negro Woman in the Quest for Equality | |
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| Female Liberation and Human Survival | |
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| When American Democracy Becomes a Sham | |
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| The Underdeveloped Resource | |
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| Justice and Values in Government | |
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| Erosion of Civil Liberties | |
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| Political Correctness: Professor Linda S. Greene vs. Robert Bork | |
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| The United States Owes Reparations to Its Black Citizens | |
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| Give Colored Women the Right to Vote | |
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| The Necessity of Universal Suffrage | |
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| The Role of Law in Effecting Social Change | |
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| New Civil Rights Demands: White Resistance | |
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| Dynamics of Change | |
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| Minority Coalitions to Secure Civil Rights | |
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| Freedom of Gay Citizens from Discrimination | |
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| Crime and Criminal Justice | |
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| The Female Inmate | |
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| Our Present Violent Crime and Drug Policies Conceived out of Fear and Politics | |
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| International Concerns | |
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| Pioneer at the Department of State | |
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| Human Rights and Social Relations | |
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| Citation for Persons Killed in Service of the United Nations | |
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| Speaking Out against Duplicity in Foreign Policy | |
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| Women and Minorities in International Law | |
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| The Japanese Buraku Problem: A Foreigner's Perspective | |
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| The First Black Women's Legal Sorority | |
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| Pioneering Facts about Black Women Lawyers and Law Teachers | |
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| 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 | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |