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average student being a 40 Phyllis Gray Hallmon, Marita Robinson Brown
year old single, female Esq. served as Chief of had a distinguished career
mother. Challenging them to Staff to two African- as an attorney in California,
develop their writing and American Congressmen first as a Legal Services
critical thinking skills, many from the deep South, both Attorney and later in private
graduated and went on to Morehouse graduates, practice.
become pillars of the Sanford Bishop (D, Georgia)
Indianapolis community. and Earl Hilliard, (D, Al). Efia Nwangaza
Mary Susan currently (formerly Margaret
teaches at the Sherryl Jefferson Mills) is a litigator in
Interdenominational Harris, Esq., first an Greenville, South Carolina.
Theological Center. She 50 entrepreneur, she was the She is the founder and
year member of Alpha first black and first female director of the Afrikan-
Kappa Alpha Sorority and attorney in the 12th Judicial American Institute for Policy
has been involved in Circuit in Alabama and the Studies and Planning, SC
numerous service projects first female assistant district Coordinator for the Malcolm
across the country in seven attorney.. Gained acclaim as X. Grassroots Movement for
chapters. an Assistant District Attorney Self-Determination. She has
Lawyers in Troy, Alabama and served on the national
Domestic Violence and steering/executive
Lawyers in the Class of child abuse Advocate. She committees of October 22nd
1969 represented a trend started the Pike Regional Coalition to Stop Police
among 60’s women who Child Advocacy and Family Brutality, Repression &
changed career fields after Resource Center. Criminalization of a
first jobs Generation (Oct 22nd),
