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Mary Ann Shad Cary in a portrait in the 1800s

Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Howard University’s First Black Female Law Student

Shadd Cary taught and attended classes at Howard University School of Law, where she was Howard’s first Black female law student and one of the first Black women to earn a law degree. Shadd Cary then joined the women’s suffrage movement.

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