Bruce, Clara Burrill
1880 -
Details
Alias: Clara Burrill
Born: 1880 in Washington, D.C., District of Columbia
Ethnicity: African American/Black
Professional Facts
Legal Education:
Boston University School of Law, 1926
Other Education:
Howard University Radcliffe College
Firsts:
African-American woman in the United States to be elected editor-in-chief of a law reviewAfrican-American woman lawyer whose son also studied law
Accomplishments:
Wrote for the Boston University Law Review
Further Research Materials
References:
The Record: The Alumni Magazine of Boston University Law School
The Record: The Alumni Magazine of Boston University Law School, Boston University School of Law; 2006
The Record: The Alumni Magazine of Boston University Law School, Boston University School of Law; 2006
Smith, J. Clay (John Clay), Emancipation : The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press (1993)
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