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Violette Neatley Anderson
1882–1937
United States
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Violette Neatley Anderson (July 16, 1882 – December 24, 1937) became the first African-American woman to practice law before the United States Supreme Court on January 29, 1926. She was one of the most prominent advocates of a landmark piece of legislation that helped secure rights and economic mobility for sharecroppers in the South, the Bankhead-Jones Act.
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