Black Fact = 1872 (April 23) – Charlotte E. Ray, the first black female lawyer, became the first black woman admitted to practice before the District Supreme Court (Washington, DC) on this date in 1872.
Charlotte E. Ray was born in New York City on January 13, 1850. She graduated from the Howard University School of Law in 1872 and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar that same year, becoming the first female African-American lawyer in the United States. Active in the suffrage movement, Ray was a member the National Association of Colored Women. She died in New York in 1911.
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