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Vividly written and profoundly researched, Gloria Browne-Marshall has gifted us with the lives of bold brilliant women of African descent who fought for freedom, equality, and dignity. This timely and riveting book is urgently needed, now!

Blanche Wiesen Cook, author, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vols I, II, III

Gloria Browne-Marshall has written a powerful primer for everyone in America who needs to know that Black women have never needed to be saved.

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author, The Condemnation of Blackness; Professor of History, Race and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Browne-Marshall lifts the voices of these Black women so that the world may see the depths to which they have succumbed and the ground they have covered in their quest to liberate and advocate for social justice.

Brenda M. Greene, Professor of English and Founder/Executive Director of the Center for Black Literature at Medgar Evers College (CUNY)

Scholar-activist Gloria Browne-Marshall has done it again. She Took Justice is a tour de force. These Black women, despite the racial and gender vagaries of their time, pursued justice at all cost, including the endangerment of their own lives.

Shaun L. Gabbidon, Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice, Penn State University-Harrisburg

She Took Justice gives the world a new story told beautifully. It is a miraculous ride. This book provides substantial evidence that The Black Womans power existed well beyond the confines of law or the traditional telling of American history.

Pamela Meanes, Past President of the National Bar Association and law partner at Thompson Coburn, LLC

She Took Justice

She Took Justice: The Black Woman, Law, and Power 1619 to 1969 proves that The Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a journey from the invasion of Africa into the Colonial period and the Civil Rights Movement. From Queen Nzingha to Shirley Chisholm, The Black Woman reveals power.

In She Took Justice, we see centuries of courage in the face of racial prejudice and gender oppression. We gain insight into American history through The Black Womans fight against race laws, especially criminal injustice. She became an organizer, leader, activist, lawyer, and judge a fighter in her own advancement.

These engaging true stories show that, for most of American history, the law was an enemy to The Black Woman. Using perseverance, tenacity, intelligence, and faith, she turned the law into a weapon to combat discrimination, a prestigious occupation, and a platform from which she could lift others as she rose. This is a book for every reader.

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a writer, civil rights attorney, playwright, and Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College (CUNY). Gloria taught in the Africana Studies Program at Vassar College. Prior to academia, she litigated cases for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Community Legal Services, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. She is the author of Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present, The Voting Rights War, and The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts. Gloria is the recipient of a Pulitzer Center grant and Frederick Lewis Allen Fellowship.

The author in Front of the Queen Nzingha Statue that Stands at the Entrance of Museu Nacional de Historia Militar in Luanda, Angola.

Source: Photograph from the Authors Collection

Criminology and Justice Studies
Series Editor: Shaun L. Gabbidon, Penn State Harrisburg

Criminology and Justice Studies publishes books for undergraduate and graduate courses that model the best scholarship and innovative thinking in the criminology and criminal justice field today, but in a style that connects this scholarship to a wide audience of students, researchers, and possibly the general public.

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She Took Justice

The Black Woman, Law, and Power 1619 to 1969

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/Criminology-and-Justice-Studies/bookseries/CRIMJUSTSTUDIES

First published 2021

by Routledge

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2021 Gloria J. Browne-Marshall

The right of Gloria J. Browne-Marshall to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Browne-Marshall, Gloria J., author.

Title: She took justice : the black woman, law, and power 1619 to 1969 / Gloria J. Browne-Marshall.

Other titles: Black woman, law, and power 1619 to 1969

Description: New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. |

Series: Criminology and justice studies | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020031148 (print) | LCCN 2020031149 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367483166 (hbk) | ISBN 9780367482190 (pbk) | ISBN 9781003039273 (ebk)

Subjects: LCSH: African American womenLegal status, laws, etc.History. | African American womenCivil rightsHistory. | African AmericansLegal status, laws, etc.History. | African AmericansCivil rightsHistory. | United StatesRace relationsHistory.

Classification: LCC E185.86 .B75 2021 (print) | LCC E185.86 (ebook) | DDC 305.48/896073dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020031148

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020031149

ISBN: 978-0-367-48316-6 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-367-48219-0 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-03927-3 (ebk)

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If women want rights more than they got,
why dont they just take them,
and not be talking about it.

Sojourner Truth

I would like to extend my deepest appreciation to everyone who assisted with this project. Research covering the many eras, deeds, laws, and people requires the assistance of talented individuals who provide whatever may be needed. If any name or organization is forgotten, it is an act of human error, not commission.

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