Mahala Dickerson papers, 1958-2007 and undated.

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Mahala Dickerson papers, 1958-2007 and undated.

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Collection comprises Dickerson's personal and business papers, and chiefly consists of correspondence; newspaper clippings; real estate records; programs, and additional items documenting honors, awards, and public appearances; papers concerning her homestead plot in Alaska and other personal and business concerns; photographs and videocassettes; and directories, journal publications, and pamphlets and correspondence concerning the American Bar Foundation and the Alabama State Bar Association. Business records chiefly are related to Dickerson's law firm of Dickerson & Gibbons, and the charitable organization Al-Acres, which she founded in memory of her son, Alfred, who drowned in 1960. There are no papers in the collection related to her memoirs, DELAYED JUSTICE FOR SALE, which she published in 1998. Audiovisual materials consist of personal photos of Dickerson, friends, and family, and videos of the American Bar Association's Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Awards Ceremony for Dickerson, 1995. A box of oversized memorabilia houses a pasteboard mount of the first page of an original 1984 article reviewing Dickerson's life accomplishments, and a poster advertising Dickerson's bid for Alaska's House of Representatives in 1968. Acquired as part of the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture.

900 items (1.2 lin. ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7450038

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Dickerson & Gibbons, Inc.

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Dickerson, Mahala.

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Born on October 12, 1912 in Montgomery, Alabama, and grew up on a plantation owned by her father. Dickerson graduated cum laude from Fisk University in 1935 with a degree in sociology. She went on to Howard University School of Law, becoming one of four women to graduate in her class of 1936. She married Henry Dickerson and had triplets, Alfred, John and Chris; she later divorced when the boys were 6. During her long legal career, she was known as an advocate for the rights of the poor and under...