RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877
WOMENS SUFFRAGE
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Abraham Lincoln helped her to start her first law practice
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She became a law professor at Boston University
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Illinois refused to give her a license to practice law
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She was married and never actually practiced law
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Detailed explanation-1: -State of Illinois, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on April 15, 1873, ruled (8–1) that the Illinois Supreme Court did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment when it denied a license to practice law to reform activist Myra Bradwell because she was a woman.
Detailed explanation-2: -Illinois constitutionally denied law licenses to women, because the right to practice law was not one of the privileges and immunities guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. Illinois Supreme Court affirmed.
Detailed explanation-3: -U.S. Supreme Court. 1. The Supreme Court of Illinois having refused to grant to a woman a license to practice law in the courts of that state, on the ground that females are not eligible under the laws of that state. Held that such a decision violates no provision of the federal Constitution.
Detailed explanation-4: -All Myra Colby Bradwell wanted to do was become a lawyer. In an era when women make up about 40% of practicing attorneys, this would seem to be an achievable goal. But when Myra, born in 1831, passed the Illinois Bar exam in 1869, she was promptly denied the right to practice law by the Illinois Supreme Court.
Detailed explanation-5: -In November 1880, Belva Lockwood became the first woman to argue before the Supreme Court when she appeared in Kaiser v. Stickney, 102 U.S. 176 (1880).