Juanita Kidd Stout papers, 1873-1998

Kidd family.

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Stout family.

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Nelson, Gail Susan

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Chandler family.

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Hastie, William Henry, Jr., 1904-1976

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William Henry Hastie Jr. (November 17, 1904 – April 14, 1976) was an American lawyer, judge, educator, public official, and civil rights advocate. He was the first African American to serve as Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, as a federal judge, and as a federal appellate judge. He served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and previously served as District Judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands. Hastie was born ...

Hamilton, John W.

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Alexander, Raymond Pace, 1898-1974

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Raymond Pace Alexander (October 13, 1897 – November 24, 1974) was an American civil rights leader, lawyer, politician, and the first African American judge appointed to the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas. A native Philadelphian, he was born in 1897 into a large working class family. He graduated from Central High School in 1917; entered the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 1917; graduated from the Wharton School in 1920 and from Harvard Law School in June 1923. He was admitted to...

Specter, Arlen, 1930-2012

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Arlen Specter (February 12, 1930 – October 14, 2012) was an American lawyer, author and politician. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, Specter became a Republican to successfully run for District Attorney of Philadelphia, serving in that office from 1966 to 1974. In 1980, Specter was elected to the first of five terms in the U.S. Senate representing Pennsylvania. In 2009, Specter re-joined the Democratic Party. He is the longest-serving senator from Pennsylvania, having represented the...

Alexander, Sadie Tanner Mossell, 1898-1989

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Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander (January 2, 1898 – November 1, 1989) was an American lawyer who was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in economics in the United States (1921), and the first woman to receive a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She was the first African-American woman to practice law in Pennsylvania, following in her father's footsteps. She was the first national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, serving from 1919 to 1923. In 1946 she ...

Blatt, Genevieve, 1913-1996

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Genevieve Blatt (June 19, 1913 – July 4, 1996) was an American politician and attorney from Pennsylvania, and a member of the Democratic Party. A native of East Brady, Clarion County, Blatt received a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1933, and an M.A. from the school in 1934. She received a J.D. from Pittsburgh's law school in 1937. Blatt became secretary and chief examiner of the Pittsburgh Civil Service Commission in 1938, and went on to serve as an assistant city solicitor. Bla...

Boger, Lawrence L.

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Schweiker, Richard S. (Richard Schultz), 1926-

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United States congressman, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. From the description of Correspondence to Edward F. Fry, 1961. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 212908346 Richard Schultz Schweiker was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, in 1926. After serving in the U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the Pennsylvania State College in 1950. Following a ten-year career in manufacturing and sales, Schweiker was elected as a Senator t...

Nix, Robert N. C., Sr. (Robert Nelson Cornelius, Sr.), 1898-1987

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Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. (August 9, 1898 – June 22, 1987) was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1958 until 1979. He was the first African American to represent Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives. The Robert N. C. Nix Federal Building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is named in his honor. Born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, he attended Townsend Harris High School in New York City and graduated from Lincoln University (Pennsylvan...

Dickerson, M. Ashley (Mahala Ashley), 1912-

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Mahala Ashley Dickerson was born on October 12, 1912 seventeen miles outside of Montgomery, Alabama, on a plantation owned by her father. Dickerson attended primary school at a private girls' school in Montgomery, and completed high school at the High School Division of the Alabama State Teacher's College. Dickerson continued on to Fisk University, where she graduated cum laude in 1935 with a degree in sociology. She married briefly in 1938 to Henry Dickerson with whom she had tripl...

Chandler family.

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Pennsylvania. Court of Common Pleas (Philadelphia County)

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Houston, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1950

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African American attorney, educator, and advocate of civil rights and educational desegregation; vice-dean, Howard University School of Law (1929-1935). From the description of Papers, 1857-1950 ; (bulk 1922-1950). (Moorland-Spingarn Resource Center). WorldCat record id: 70941394 Biographical Note William LePre Houston 1870, May 14 ...

Boren, David, 1941-

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Stout family.

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Nelson, Gail

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Massiah-Jackson, Frederica A.

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Pennsylvania. Supreme Court

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Ponder, Henry, 1928-

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Henry Ponder was born on March 28, 1928 in Wewoka, Oklahoma. He was the eleventh of fourteen children born to Frank and Lillie Mae Ponder. Ponder excelled in academics and participated in his high school student council as the class president. After hearing a speech by Mary McCloud Bethune, Ponder was inspired to become a university president. He graduated from Douglas High School in 1946 and attended Langston University, where he pledged the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and received his B.S. degr...

Kidd family.

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Hamilton, John W.

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Capers, Jean M.

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Alpern, Anne X.

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Anne X. Alpern was a renowned jurist hailing from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She served as city solicitor of Pittsburgh during the 1940s and in 1959 became attorney general of Pennsylvania, the first woman to hold such an office in the United States. Born in Russia in 1903, she moved to the United States shortly thereafter with her family, settling in Scenery Hill near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Although Alpern was interested in law from an early age, she trained as a teacher, receiving a Bachelor...

White, Ronald A. (Ronald Avon)

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Pennsylvania. Municipal Court (Philadelphia County)

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Sears-Collins, Leah

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Smith, Charles Z. 1927-

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Retired Justice of the Washington Supreme Court and prosecutor for the United States Department of Justice, Charles Zellender Smith was born on February 23, 1927, in Lakeland, Florida. Son of John R. Smith, Sr., a Cuban immigrant, and Eva Love Smith, he attended school in Franklin, North Carolina at age three, Washington Park School in Lakeland and Hungerford School in Maitland, Florida. Mentored by Dr. William H. Gray, Jr., President of Florida A&M College, he served as Gray's administrativ...

Stout, Juanita Kidd, 1919-1998

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Jurist; first African American female appointed or elected judge of a court of record or general jurisdiction in the U.S. From the description of Juanita Kidd Stout papers, 1873-1998 (bulk 1948-1997). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70984364 Biographical Note 1919, Mar. 7 Born, Wewoka, Okla. 1939 Graduat...