Law & Politics Flashcards
(50 cards)
In 2009, he became the first black American U.S. Attorney General. He is the 82nd Attorney General
of the United States.
Eric Holder
He was the first black lawyer to win a lawsuit in America was.
Robert Morris
In 2011, she became the first African American and South Asian to hold the office of Attorney General
of the State of California.
Kamala Harris
The first black lawyer admitted to the bar in the United States was Macon Bolling Allen, from what
city and state.
Portland, Maine.
In 1968, he was, former mayor of Prichard, Alabama, founded the first Black American Law Students
Association (BALSA) at the New York University Law School. BALSA was the precursor to the
Black Law Students Association (BLSA). In 198, BALSA revised its name and the word “American”
was deleted to encompass all blacks, including those not of American nationality.
Algemon Johnson Cooper, Jr.
He became the first black lawyer to actually argue a case before the Supreme Court on February 2,
1866.
Samuel R. Lowery
In 1967 President Johnson appointed him to the Supreme Court. Justice Marshall became the first
black Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall
In 1966, she became the first African-American woman appointed to the federal bench.
Constance Baker Motley
On January 29, 1926, this woman became the first black woman lawyer admitted to practice before
the Supreme Court.
Violette N. Anderson
On what date did Lani Guinier became the first Black woman named as a tenured faculty member in
the Harvard University School. Her official starting date was July 1, 1998.
January 26, 1998
In 2004, this law school appointed Frederic White, the first African-American dean of an ABAaccredited
law school in California.
Golden Gate University’s School of Law
In 1870, he was the first African-American U.S. Senator (Mississippi).
Senator Hiram Revels
January 1, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln issued this order proclaiming the freedom of slaves in ten
states that were still in rebellion during the Civil War.
Emancipation Proclamation
In 1866, these two men became the first blacks elected to a U.S. state legislature (Massachusetts
House of Representatives).
Edward G. Walker and Charles L. Mitchell
January 4, 1869 the first law school in the United States intended for African-Americans and those
seeking to provide legal defense for African-Americans was established at this law school.
Howard School of Law
1948: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that this woman be admitted to the law school at the University
of Oklahoma. The ruling states that blacks have the right to a legal education of the same quality as
whites.
Ada Sipuel
In 1969 who served as the first black president of a law review journal at a top law school. He is
named to head the Stanford Law Review.
Vaughn Charles Williams
In what year did Annette Gordon becomes the first black woman editor on the Harvard Law Review.
1982
1990: What group called filed a suit against Harvard Law School saying it does not comply with
Massachusetts’s law in its hiring women and minorities.
Harvard Law School Coalition for Civil Rights
In 1990 he was elected the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.
Barack Obama
She was the first woman to run for U.S. President and was the first black woman elected to Congress.
Shirley Holmes Chisholm
This 1960 ruling declared segregation in interstate bus and rail stations unconstitutional.
Boyton v. Virginia
The “Big 5” Civil Rights groups are?
The National Urban League; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP); Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); The Congress of Racial
Equality (C.O.R.E); The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
What act outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious
minorities, and women. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial
segregation in schools, at the workplace, and by facilities that served the general public (“public
accommodations”)?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
