From NWHM
Belva Ann Bennett McNall Lockwood, lawyer,
pacifist, and feminist, made history as the woman who won the right for
women lawyers to practice before the Supreme Court. She herself became
the first woman lawyer to practice before the Supreme Court, founded
the national Equal Rights Party and was its candidate for president in
1884 and 1888, and won a precedent-setting legal case for the Cherokee
Indian tribe based on their treaty rights with the United States
government (1906).
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