Bazelon, David Lionel (3 September 1909–19 February 1993), lawyer and United States Circuit Court judge, was born in Superior, Wisconsin, the son of Israel Bazelon, a shopkeeper, and Lena Bazelon. Bazleon was the youngest of nine children. Raised in poverty, his family’s already precarious financial situation was exacerbated by his father’s death when Bazelon was two years old. In search of increased economic opportunity, the family then moved to Chicago. Bazelon attended the University of Illinois, and then transferred to Northwestern University where he received his law degree in ...
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Bazelon, David Lionel (3 September 1909–19 February 1993), lawyer and United States Circuit Court judge
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Bolin, Jane Matilda (11 April 1908–8 January 2007), attorney, judge, and civil rights activist
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Bolin, Jane Matilda (11 April 1908–8 January 2007), attorney, judge, and civil rights activist, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York to Matilda Emery Bolin and Gaius Charles Bolin. Matilda Emery immigrated with her parents to the United States from Northern Ireland and settled in Poughkeepsie, where she later met and married Gaius Charles Bolin, who had deeper roots in New York as a descendant of a long line of free Duchess County Black residents. The Bolins had lived in and around Poughkeepsie for nearly two hundred years and left an impressive legacy of civil rights protest upon which Jane Bolin built. Her grandfather, Abram Bolin, was an activist and reformer, who in ...
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Bork, Robert H. (1 March 1927–19 December 2012), conservative legal theorist, Solicitor General of the United States, federal appellate judge, and writer
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Bork, Robert H. (1 March 1927–19 December 2012), conservative legal theorist, Solicitor General of the United States, federal appellate judge, and writer, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Harry Philip Bork, a purchasing agent for a steel company, and Elizabeth Kunkle, an English teacher. He graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut in ...
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Motley, Constance Baker (14 Sept. 1921–28 Sept. 2005), civil rights lawyer, politician, and judge
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Motley, Constance Baker (14 Sept. 1921–28 Sept. 2005), civil rights lawyer, politician, and judge, was born Constance Baker in New Haven, Connecticut, the ninth of twelve children of Willoughby Baker, a chef for various Yale University student organizations, and Rachel Huggins Baker, a preschool teacher prior to her marriage. Her parents hailed from Nevis, the Caribbean island and English colony, and had immigrated to the United States during the early twentieth century. The family’s immigrant background shaped the young girl’s upbringing and values; she grew up in a tight-knit community of immigrants who shared cultural practices, worshiped together, and secured work in New Haven’s service industries. Coming of age during the Great Depression in the 1930s, Constance attended the city’s racially integrated schools and lived in a racially mixed, working-class immigrant neighborhood. Her neighbors and schoolmates included Italians, Irish, Jews, and Nevisians....
