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Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Celebrating Charlotte E. Ray
Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Black History Month post on Charlotte E. Ray: born January 13, 1850; graduated from the Howard University School of Law in 1872 and was admitted to the District of Columbia bar; the first African American woman to graduate from a law school and the first to formally practice law; forced to close her practice because, as a woman of color, she could not obtain enough business to sustain it.
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- dc-oag-charlotte-e-ray
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- web
- Trust tier
- B
- Status
- published
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The District’s own legal office, read on 2026-09-16. It does not carry the “C.E. Ray” application story, which appears elsewhere only secondhand.
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- Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
- Accessed
- 2026-09-16
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