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April 2024
1. What legal issue affecting schools did Iowa rule on in Clark v. Board of School Directors in 1868, 86 years before the U.S. Supreme Court held the same in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954?
Separate schools for African Americans are “inherently unequal” also known as “separate but not equal” allowing African American children to attend what were traditionally white public schools.
2. Iowa is the first state in the United States to allow a female lawyer to be admitted to the bar, Arabella Mansfield, in what year?
1869
3. Who was Iowa’s first female African American lawyer admitted to the bar in 1918?
Gertrude E. Rush was the first African American woman admitted to the Iowa State Bar and was one of the founding members of the National Bar Association.