Daughter of the Empire State

McLeod, Jacqueline.

Daughter of the Empire State the life of Judge Jane Bolin / [electronic resource] : Jacqueline A. McLeod. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2011. - xvi, 146 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Her standing in Poughkeepsie : family lineage and legacy -- On her own : the years at Wellesley and Yale -- Politics of preparation : the making of the nation's first African American woman judge -- Politics of practice : an African American woman judge on the Domestic Relations Court -- Speaking truth to power : a view from the bench of Judge Jane Bolin -- Persona non grata : Jane Bolin and the NAACP, 1931-50.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Bolin, Jane M. 1908-2007.


African American judges--New York (State)--New York--Biography.
Women judges--New York (State)--New York--Biography.


Electronic books.

KF373.B554 / M38 2011

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