Papers of Burnita Shelton Matthews, 1926-1981

Bethune, Mary McLeod, 1875-1955

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Mary Jane McLeod Bethune (born Mary Jane McLeod; July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and resided as president or leader for myriad African American women's organizations including the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration'...

Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906

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Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activ...

American University (Washington, D.C.)

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Women's City Club of Washington, D.C.

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Allen, Florence Ellinwood, 1884-1966

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Florence Ellinwood Allen (March 23, 1884 – September 12, 1966) was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She was the first woman to serve on a state supreme court and one of the first two women to serve as a United States federal judge. In 2005, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Allen was born on March 23, 1884, in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Clarence Emir Allen Sr., a mine manager, and later United States R...

Harlan, Roma Christine, 1912-2003

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Matthews, Burnita Shelton, 1894-1988

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Burnita Shelton Matthews (December 28, 1894 – April 25, 1988) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. She was the first woman appointed to serve on a United States District Court. Matthews was born Burnita Shelton in Burnell, (an unincorporated community in Claiborne County), Mississippi, on December 28, 1894. Her father was a planter and chancery court judge. She had a brother, John L. Shelton. After attending local schools, sh...

National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs (U.S.)

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National Woman's Party

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National Woman’s Party (NWP), formerly (1913–16) Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, American political party that in the early part of the 20th century employed militant methods to fight for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Formed in 1913 as the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage, the organization was headed by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. Its members had been associated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), but their insistence that woman suffr...

Dupont Circle Citizens' Association

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Paul, Alice, 1885-1977

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Quaker, lawyer, and lifelong activist for women's rights, Alice Paul was educated at Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania, where her doctoral dissertation was on the legal status of women in Pennsylvania. She later earned law degrees from Washington College of Law and American University. Paul also studied economics and sociology at the universities of London and Birmingham and worked at a number of British social settlements (1907-1910). While in England she wa...

Kappa Beta Pi Legal Sorority.

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United States. District Court for the District of Columbia

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Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 1933-2020

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born Joan Ruth Bader, March 15, 1933 – September 18, 2020), also known by her initials RBG, was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1993 until her death in 2020. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on June 14, 1993, and had served since August 10, 1993. Ginsburg became the second of four female justices to be confirmed to the Court after Sandra Day O'Connor, the two others being Sonia Sotomayor and Elen...

International Labour Office.

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Medical College of Pennsylvania

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Portia Club

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American Legion. Auxiliary

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The American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) was founded in 1919 as a patriotic women's service organization. From the description of Ledger of the American Legion Auxiliary, Los Angeles Post #8, 1920-1948. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 729435810 ...

Thomas, Len

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Bacon, Sylvia, 1931-

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Sylvia A. Bacon (July 9, 1931 – ) is a former judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia who was considered by both Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan as a potential nominee to the Supreme Court of the United States, at a time when no women had yet been appointed to the Court. Born in Watertown, South Dakota, Bacon graduated Watertown High School[6] in 1949 and received a B.A. in Economics from Vassar College after three years (1952), a Graduate Certificate in Economics from the...

American bar association

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED In 1971 the American Bar Association formed a committee to prepare a study "...on the respective powers under the Constitution of the President and of the Congress to enter into and conduct war." The committee was chaired by Lyman M. Tondel, Jr. and the project was funded by the Association's Fund for Public Education which in turn contracted with Columbia University to carry out the study. The staff included Abraham D. Sofaer, Project Director and Adjunct Professor of Law at C...

U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals

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Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia

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National Association of Women Lawyers

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The National Association of Women Lawyers grew out of the Women Lawyers Club, which was formed by 18 women lawyers in New York City in 1899. Its first major project was support for women's suffrage, a concern that was featured prominently in the Women Lawyers' Journal, which began publication in 1911. Other organizational goals included appointment of women to the bench, the right of women to serve on juries, the enactment of child labor legislation, minimum wage laws, and the defeat of protecti...

Women's City Club of Washington, D.C.

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Pilot Club (Washington, D.C.)

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Washington Club (Washington, D.C.)

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National University

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Washington Bar Association of the District of Columbia.

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McGuire, Matthew F.

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Center for a Woman's Own Name

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U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia

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Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania

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U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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National University Alumni Association

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Inter-American Commission of Women

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In 1928, the Inter-American Commission of Women (IACW) was established to study the civil and political status of women in the Americas. Don Stevens was appointed first chairman of the Commission of 21 members, one from each country in North, Central, and South America. From the guide to the Inter-American Commission of Women Records MS 312., 1928-1976, (Sophia Smith Collection) From the description of Records, 1928-1976. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 50118946 ...

American University

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American Bar Association Committee on Cooperation with Laymen

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