The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Dorothy Roberts

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Dorothy Roberts

8/27/2010

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2010.104

Law professor Dorothy Roberts (1956 - ) was the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at the Northwestern University School of Law and the author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. Roberts was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 8/27/2010, in Chicago, Illinois. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 6; Total Run Time: 03h 00m 09s

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Roberts, Dorothy E., 1956-

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Law Professor Dorothy E. Roberts was born in 1956. In 1977, she graduated from Yale College,magna cum laude, where she was also elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Three years later, in 1980, Roberts graduated from Harvard Law School with her J.D., and for the next year she served as a law clerk for Hon. Constance Baker Motley in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. After her admission to the New York State Bar in 1981, Roberts worked as an associate in the law firm of Paul, Wei...