“Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.”
— James Baldwin
Ketanji Brown Jackson: The First Black Justice on the Supreme Court
Lila Fenwick became the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School.
In 1956, Lila Fenwick became the first black woman to graduate from Harvard Law School. Fenwick later led the United Nations’ Human Rights Division. She attended Harvard in 1954 when the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education came down, joining only a handful of women and the only black woman a one year before Ruth Bader Ginsburg started as a first-year student at the school.