A $10 million settlement between county officials in Springfield, Illinois, and the family of Sonya Massey is the “first step ...
Barbara Brown Simmons was the first Black woman to graduate from the University of New Mexico School of Law and the first ...
“Lucky” Luciano was no match for Carter, the prosecutor who years earlier became the first Black woman to graduate from Fordham University School of Law. A Black woman with a history of ...
s Star state of Minnesota. From fur trader George Bonga to the state?s first black woman lawyer, Lena Smith. first black woman lawyer, Lena Smith. North Star: Minnesota's Black Pioneers is ...