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In this timeline of the Woman’s Rights Movement in Illinois created in 1912, one can see how Myra Bradwell was a huge part of the feminist movement. The timeline notes that in the same year she took her case to the United States Supreme Court, she…

This article covers the convention of the National Women Suffrage Association. This was before the suffrage movement split into two factions over the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted black men but not women the right to vote. Two important things…

This pamphlet includes speeches by Matilda Joselyn Gage and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and an appendix including information on actions taken since the convention. In this specific speech, Myra Bradwell is mentioned for her Supreme Court case. It also…

Bradwell printed the Equal Employment Law that she crafted and passed through the Illinois State Legislator. Interestingly, this legislation was ratified even before the Unites States Supreme Court had decided on her case. By lobbying the political…

In this article, Myra Bradwell and an unnamed party explain their legal journey in appealing to both the Illinois Supreme and United States Supreme Court for the right as a woman to practice law. The piece sets forward the plaintiff’s actions and…

This follow up article demonstrates Bradwell’s reaction and legal analysis of the United States Supreme Court’s opinion to Bradwell v. Illinois. After giving readers the chance to read both the Court’s majority and concurring opinion, Bradwell gives…

In this follow up article to Bradwell v. Illinois, the Chicago Legal News prints the additional opinions of other United States Supreme Court Justices. Justice Bradley’s opinion, outlined in blue, has gained the most attention from Bradwell’s case.…

In this brief article, Myra Bradwell discusses the Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Bill with specific focus on Justice Bradley’s opinion and decisions on such legislation. An important feature of this article is how Bradwell defines the…

In this section from the Chicago Legal News, the paper reprinted a statement from the American Law Review on the matter of women entering the profession of law. The legal news journal focuses on the development of women’s ability to access occupation…

Myra Bradwell printed the United States Supreme Court majority opinion of her case in this edition of the Chicago Legal News. Justice Miller, who wrote the majority opinion, first explains the details of the case, including how Bradwell was denied…