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In 1950 there would be 31,707 male lawers in New York State. There would be 1,275 female lawyers in New York State. There would be 19 Negro women lawyers in New York State. Put otherwise, black women constituted about 6 10,000ths (0.06%) of all the state's layers. A proportion so small that it is less a minority than a rounding error.
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― Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
― Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster
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He so often felt as though he hailed from a different species, not quite human. He’d always been different, had never fit. Negroes looked at him askance, questioning his credentials as a Negro man. Whites did, too. For both groups, he wasn’t Negro enough.
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― Jazz Moon
― Jazz Moon
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