The composite images were put together by Brenan Sharp. The caption text was written by Lee Rawles, relying on the sources listed below.
Books
Morello, Karen. The Invisible Bar: The Woman Lawyer in America 1638 to Present. New York: Random House, 1986.
Norgren, Jill. Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women Lawyers. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
Smith, J. Clay Jr., ed. Rebels in Law: Voices in History of Black Women Lawyers. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1998.
Web resources
Ada Kepley by the Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography.
Bar None: 125 years of women lawyers in Illinois, by the Chicago Bar Association.
Charlotte E. Ray: A Black Woman Lawyer (PDF) by Tonya Michelle Osborne.
A Defender of Huron Cemetery Dies at 72 (PDF) by The Kansan.
Florence Ellinwood Allen by the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
Florence Ellinwood Allen by Utah History to Go.
Lucy Terry Prince by PBS.org.
Lucy Terry Prince - Singer of History by the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association & Historic Deerfield, Inc.
Lutie Lytle by the Kansas Historical Society.
Myra Bradwell, by the Law Library of Congress.
The Pioneering Career of ‘Prohibition Portia’ by the Los Angeles Times.
Prohibition:// Mabel Walker Willebrandt by PBS.org.
TV Preview: Boardwalk Empire (2011), Entertainment Weekly.
‘Trespasser, Beware’: Lyda Burton Conley and the Battle for the Huron Place Cemetery (PDF) by A. Kimberley Dayton, William Mitchell College of Law.
Women Lawyers and State Bar Admission by the Library of Congress.
