The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Jewel Lafontant-MANkarious

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

OralHistoryResource

The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Jewel Lafontant-MANkarious

2/5/1993

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A1993.006

Lawyer Jewel Lafontant-MANkarious (1922 - 1997 ) was the first African American to serve as Deputy Solicitor General of the United States. She is the mother of John Rogers, Jr., founder and CEO of Ariel Investments. Lafontant-MANkarious was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 2/5/1993, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 1; Total Run Time: 00h 20m 41s

The HistoryMakers

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 11634230

The HistoryMakers

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Lafontant-MANkarious, Jewel, 1922-1997

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mw3pfm (person)

Jewel Stradford LaFontant-MANkarious was born April 28, 1922 to an upper middle class African-American family in Chicago, Illinois. The influence of her father and grandfather, both lawyers, led her to choose a career in law. After receiving an A.B. in political science from Oberlin College in 1943, she entered the University of Chicago Law School and, in 1946, became the first African-American woman to graduate from that institution. From 1955-58 she served as Assistant U.S. District Attorney f...