Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin

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This long overdue biography elevates Jane Matilda Bolin to her rightful place in American history as an activist, integrationist, jurist, and outspoken public figure within the political and professional milieu of New York City before the onset of the brand new Civil Rights movement. When Bolin was once appointed to New York City’s domestic relations court in 1939 for the first of four ten-year terms, she became the nation’s first African American woman pass judgement on. Drawing on archival materials in addition to a meeting with Bolin in 2002, historian Jacqueline A. McLeod reveals how Bolin parlayed her judicial position to have an effect on significant reforms of the legal and social service system in New York. Beginning with Bolin’s childhood and educational experiences at Wellesley and Yale, Daughter of the Empire State chronicles Bolin’s quite quick upward thrust during the ranks of a profession that automatically excluded both women and African Americans. McLeod links Bolin’s activist leanings and integrationist zeal to her involvement within the NAACP and details her work as a critic and reformer of domestic relations courts and juvenile placement facilities.
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