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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Jacqueline A. McLeod not only premieres the public life of Jane Matilda Bolin but also bridges some of the gaps that exist in studies of lawyers who are most likely to be male and of female lawyers who are most likely to be white. This is an engaging work that will be of interest to scholars of women's history and African American history as well as legal studies and the history of social and political reform."--Stephanie J. Shaw, author of
What a Woman Ought to Be and to Do: Black Professional Women Workers During the Jim Crow Era "McLeod draws on archival material and an interview with Bolin to rescue from obscurity this juvenile-justice activist and pioneer in the advancement of African Americans and women in the legal profession."--Booklist
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Daughter of the Empire State accomplishes what any good first biography should do."--
The Journal of American History Table of ContentsCoverTitle PageCopyright PageContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Her Standing in Poughkeepsie: Family Lineage and Legacy2. On Her Own: The Years at Wellesley and Yale3. Politics of Preparation: The Making of the Nation's First African American Woman JudgeIllustrations after page 424. Politics of Practice: An African American Woman Judge on the Domestic Relations Court5. Speaking Truth to Power: A View from the Bench of Judge Jane Bolin6. Persona Non Grata: Jane Bolin and the NAACP, 1931-50EpilogueNotesIndexback cover
