Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Law Is No Mystery to Black Women	1
Pt. 1	Law and Its Call to Black Women	9
	Miss Lutie Lytle Speaks in 1897	11
	Law and Its Call to Women	13
	Legal Profession Followed by Nation's Best Known Socialites	16
	Women in the Law	24
	Forty-five Years a Woman Lawyer	26
	Jet-Propelled into the Law	29
	Sheer Determination Brought Me Through	32
	Forty Years a Lawyer	34
	Lawyers Are Leaders in the Community	36
	Law Teacher, Lawyer and Judge	38
	Some Recollections of My Career	41
Pt. 2	The Power of Black Women	47
	Women Lawyers Must Balk Both Color and Sex Bias	49
	Constitutional Law and Black Women	52
	Women Must Wield Their Power for the Sake of Justice	60
	The Power of Black Women to Tell Their Stories	64
	The Black Woman: Who Represents Her?	70
Pt. 3	Legal Education, the Legal Academy, and the Legal Profession	77
	Pauli Murray's Appeal: For Admission to Harvard Law School	79
	Second Black Woman at University of Michigan's Law School	84
	Breaking New Ground with Grace: The University of Michigan's First Black Woman Law Graduate	86
	Neither a Whisper Nor a Shout	90
	Antioch's Fight against Neutrality in Legal Education	102
	There Is a Future for Black Lawyers	106
	Problems within the Legal Profession	111
Pt. 4	On Presidents and Judges	113
	The Most Dangerous Election in History	115
	Surviving the Reagan Years	117
	President Clinton's Doubt; Lani Guinier's Certainty	123
	Robert Bork Should Sit on High Court	128
	Clarence Thomas Should Not Sit on High Court	131
	In Clarence Thomas You Hope for a Miracle	137
	Thurgood Marshall Spoke for Humble People	139
Pt. 5	Race, Equality, Justice, and Freedom	141
	Racism Is a Deadly Force in America	144
	Democracy and Race	147
	The Confederate Flag as Racist Symbolism	150
	The Issue of Race	156
	Black Strategies: Responding to Thomas Sowell. I Know Where You're Coming from, But...	162
	White Racism; Black Dissent	165
	African Americans Must Reject Anti-Semitism	167
	Black Political Power	169
	The Negro Woman in the Quest for Equality	172
	Female Liberation and Human Survival	178
	When American Democracy Becomes a Sham	182
	The Underdeveloped Resource	186
	Justice and Values in Government	190
	Erosion of Civil Liberties	196
	Political Correctness: Professor Linda S. Greene vs. Robert Bork	201
	The United States Owes Reparations to Its Black Citizens	204
	Give Colored Women the Right to Vote	211
	The Necessity of Universal Suffrage	213
	The Role of Law in Effecting Social Change	217
	New Civil Rights Demands: White Resistance	221
	Dynamics of Change	224
	Minority Coalitions to Secure Civil Rights	228
	Freedom of Gay Citizens from Discrimination	231
Pt. 6	Crime and Criminal Justice	234
	The Female Inmate	237
	Our Present Violent Crime and Drug Policies Conceived out of Fear and Politics	242
Pt. 7	International Concerns	246
	Pioneer at the Department of State	249
	Human Rights and Social Relations	251
	Citation for Persons Killed in Service of the United Nations	253
	Speaking Out against Duplicity in Foreign Policy	255
	Women and Minorities in International Law	257
	The Japanese Buraku Problem: A Foreigner's Perspective	260
App. A	The First Black Women's Legal Sorority	267
App. B	Pioneering Facts about Black Women Lawyers and Law Teachers	277
App. C	U.S. Census: The Number of Women Lawyers by Race and Nationality in Each State/Select Territories and the Combined Total of Male Lawyers (all races), 1950-90	284
	Contributors	299
	Index	315