Daughter of the Empire State
Subtitle: the life of Judge Jane Bolin
By: Jacqueline A. McLeod
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780252036576
Subjects: African American judges; Women judges; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Her standing in Poughkeepsie : family lineage and legacy; title: On her own : the years at Wellesley and Yale; title: Politics of preparation : the making of the nation's first African American woman judge; title: Politics of practice : an African American woman judge on the Domestic Relations Court; title: Speaking truth to power : a view from the bench of Judge Jane Bolin; title: Persona non grata : Jane Bolin and the NAACP, 1931-50.