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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Styles L. Hutchins
Life StoryThe story of a Black attorney and legislator who believed he was bound by the law to defend the innocent, to right wrongs, and to pursue justice, even at the risk of his personal safety.
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Noah Parden
Life StoryThe story of a Black attorney who risked his own safety defending Ed Johnson and, in doing so, helped to reshape the constitutional protections of people accused of crimes.
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Miriam Naveira Merly
Life StoryThe Puerto Rican attorney who became the first woman to serve as Solicitor General of Puerto Rico, Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Puerto Rican Supreme Court, and the first woman of Puerto Rican descent to argue before the Supreme Court of the United States.
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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
