American lawyer, judge, and political activist (1888–1972)
Dorothy Kenyon
Born
(1888-02-17)February 17, 1888
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died
February 12, 1972(1972-02-12) (aged 83)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Education
Smith College (BA) New York University (LLB)
Occupation(s)
attorney, judge
Dorothy Kenyon (February 17, 1888 – February 12, 1972) was a New York attorney, judge, feminist and political activist in support of civil liberties. During the era of McCarthyite persecution, she was accused of being affiliated with 28 communist front organizations. Kenyon was a charismatic speaker, and she regularly travelled throughout the U.S. lecturing about civil liberties, the law, and women's equality.
DorothyKenyon (February 17, 1888 – February 12, 1972) was a New York attorney, judge, feminist and political activist in support of civil liberties. During...
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most meetings and relevant documentation. In the 1950s, League member DorothyKenyon was attacked as a Communist by Joseph McCarthy and president Percy Maxim...
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the second female law clerk was not hired until 1966. Ginsburg listed DorothyKenyon and Pauli Murray as co-authors on the brief in recognition of their...
leaving only half the black population protected. Later in 1966, she and DorothyKenyon of the ACLU successfully argued White v. Crook, a case in which a three-judge...
the work of previous feminist legal scholars such as Pauli Murray, DorothyKenyon and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. According to MacKinnon, who is one of the most...
individuals and made charges against nine others whose names he made public: DorothyKenyon, Esther Brunauer, Haldore Hanson, Gustavo Duran, Owen Lattimore, Harlow...
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and pacifist Emily Greene Balch, the New York attorney and feminist DorothyKenyon and the free-love advocate and poet Sara Bard Field. The Committee reported...
presentations includes: Dubow, Sara. “‘I Always Pick the Losing Cause’: DorothyKenyon, the ACLU, and the Development of Feminist Jurisprudence,” the 2023...
group of socially minded women, among them Mary E. Arnold, Mabel Reed, DorothyKenyon, Mary LaDame and Ruth True. Starting with one cafeteria, the association...
June 1954) of Clarendon was a godson of Sir John Alexander Cockburn. DorothyKenyon Wilton (1 September 1890 – 1962) married William Albert Smith in 1928...
Walter Lippman, jurist Felix Frankfurter, judge and political activist DorothyKenyon, painter Thomas Hart Benton, poet Sylvia Plath, writer Max Eastman....
Doris Margaret Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was an American actress of film and television. She grew up in Syracuse, New York, where...
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reformer; the Garrison, Hale, and Ames families; political activist DorothyKenyon; the papers of author and activist Gloria Steinem; and lesbian feminist...
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