Kensi Gounden - Famous American Female Lawyer Charlotte E. Ray

Kensi Gounden writing the biography of famous American teacher and lawyer. Charlotte E. Ray was an American lawyer. She was the first black American female lawyer in the United States Ray studied at the Institution for the Education of Colored Youth in Washington, D.C., and by 1869 she was teaching at Howard University. There she studied law, receiving her degree in 1872. Her admission that year to the District of Columbia bar made her the first woman admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and the first black woman certified as a lawyer in the United States.


Kensi Gounden - Famous American Female Lawyer Charlotte E. Ray

Ray opened her law office in Washington, D.C., but racial prejudices proved too strong, and she could not obtain enough legal business to maintain an active practice. By 1879 she had returned to New York City, where she taught in the public schools. In the late 1880s she married a man with the surname of Fraim; little is known of her later life.

Ray was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar on March 2, 1872 and admitted to practice as a lawyer in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia on April 23, 1872. Her appointment was noted in the Woman's Journal and gained her inclusion as one of the Women of the Century. Ray began her independent practice of commercial law in 1872, advertising in newspapers such as the New National Era and Citizen, owned by Frederick Douglass. Some sources suggest that she hoped to specialize in real estate law, which would involve fewer appearances in court.

Kensi Gounden - Famous American Female Lawyer Charlotte E. Ray

Poet Henrietta Cordelia Ray was her sister. At one point all three sisters were teachers. Charlotte gave up teaching for a period to practice law, and Henrietta Cordelia gave up teaching to obtain her masters and write poetry.

Ray attended the National Woman Suffrage Association's New York convention in 1876. After 1895 Ray seems to have been active in the National Association of Colored Women.

She married in the late 1880s and became Charlotte E. Fraim.

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https://en.wikipedia.org

https://www.houstonisd.org/

https://www.texasmonthly.com

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