Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination marks the latest milestone in a history of trailblazing Black women lawyers
Later in the 20th century, when men went off to fight in World War II, doors for Black women lawyers opened. “Spaces had opened up at law schools because of World War II,” says Virginia L. Summey, historian and author ofElreta Alexander Papers, MSS 0223, Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, University Libraries, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
One of those beneficiaries was Elreta Melton Alexander, the first Black woman to graduate from Columbia Law School in 1945. She practiced in her hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina, and her most well-known case came in 1964, when she defended four Black men accused of raping a white woman.
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