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  • Belva Lockwood

    Life Story

    The educator, activist, and attorney who became both the first woman to argue before the Supreme Court and to run for President of the United States.

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  • Circuit

  • A page of the New York Times displays the text

    First Amendment

  • Seven Black men, all dressed in suits, wait in line to board the front of a bus after the decision in Browder v. Gayle.

    Fourteenth Amendment

  • Landmark Case

  • Native Americans

  • Selective Incorporation

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