From the handful who guided the movement and helped change antiquated laws, to the thousands who continued that work and challenged the profession. Join Veteran Feminists of America for a Salute to Feminist Lawyers: 1963-75. June 9, 2008 at the Harvard Club in New York City. Featuring a special tribute to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

In Memoriam: Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray (1910-1985)

A founder of the Congress of Racial Equality in 1942, Murray was denied admission to Harvard Law School not on racial grounds, but because she was a woman.

A seasoned labor and civil rights activist, by the time she graduated from Howard University Law School she was an unabashed feminist as well, coining the concept "Jane Crow," piggybacking the fledgling women's movement onto the demand for civil rights.

She was the first woman as well as the first African-American to earn a Doctorate of Juridical Science from Yale Law School. Recognizing the need for a NAACP-like organization for women, she was a founding member of NOW in 1966. In 1971 she received the Eleanor Roosevelt Award from the Professional Women's Caucus.

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