Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin

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Portrait of Jane M. Bolin at age 15 (1923). Courtesy Jane M. Bolin Photograph Collection, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NewYork Public Library,Astor, Lenox andTilden Foundations. Jane M. Bolin with father Gaius C. Bolin, distinguished lawyer, Poughkeepsie, NewYork (1944). Courtesy Jane M. Bolin Photograph Collection, Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NewYork Public Library,Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Jane Bolin is sworn in by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia as judge in Domestic Relations Court as her husband, Ralph Mizelle, watches (July 22, 1939). Courtesy NewYork Daily News, photo by BillWallace. “Miss Jane Bolin, first colored woman to become a judge in NewYork, gets acquainted before convening Domestic Relations Court at 153 E. 57th Street. She took the bench for the first time today. Opening case was that of a man who left his wife in need.” Courtesy NewYork Daily News, photo by Ed Jackson. ...