Advocate
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Women in Law: 1953-1969
ArticleHow a small but growing number of women pursued law careers and advocated before the Supreme Court
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Thurgood Marshall as an Advocate
ArticleBefore he was a Supreme Court Justice, Marshall advocated for civil rights as a lawyer with the NAACP.
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Gus Garcia
Life StoryThe charismatic attorney who fought for civil rights and worked with the first Mexican-American legal team to argue before the Supreme Court
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Dorothy Kenyon
Life StoryThe lawyer and social activist whose lifelong advocacy laid the foundation for litigating women’s rights
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Daniel Webster
Life StoryA brilliant orator, Constitutional lawyer, American statesman who argued over 150 cases before the Supreme Court
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Constance Baker Motley
Life StoryThe daughter of Caribbean immigrants who became a monumental civil rights advocate, pioneer in politics, and the first Black woman to argue before the Supreme Court and to serve as a federal district judge.
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Bessie Margolin
Life StoryThe daughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants who dedicated her four decades of government service to fighting for workers’ rights
