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Rosalie Loew Whitney

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Rosalie Loew Whitney was the first woman to become the acting attorney of the New York Legal Aid Society.

When

4 May 1893

Biography

Rosalie Loew Whitney is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Rosalie Loew Whitney was the first woman to become the acting attorney of the New York Legal Aid Society.

How & why

Rosalie Loew Whitney was the first woman to become the acting attorney of the New York Legal Aid Society. That is how the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, the scholarly reference published by the Jewish Women's Archive, opens its entry on her, written by Dorothy Thomas, and the entry is linked below.

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Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Dorothy Thomas

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Rosalie Loew Whitney was the first woman to become the acting attorney of the New York Legal Aid Society.

1893

Source: Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women (Jewish Women's Archive) — Dorothy Thomas