National Council of Women of the United States

National Council of Women of the United States

Transactions of the National Council of Women of the United States

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 mentions that nearly 20 years later, the court granted her law license. 
This refusal in the court's original ruling shows how the strides of Bradwell and other women's rights activists had an meaningful impact on the legal realm of American politics. 

National Council of Women of the United States

New York : Journeymen Printers' Co-operative Association - pg. 251

Library of Congress - https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbnawsa.n8748/?q=myra+bradwell&sp=258

February 22 to 25, 1891

Davis, Paulina W. (Paulina Wright), 1813-1876.
Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927.
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893, former owner.
Susan B. Anthony Collection (Library of Congress)
National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress)

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Pamphlet

In 1869 Mrs. Myra Bradwell, of Chicago, applied for admission to the bar, but her application was refused. She then, for twenty-two years, gratified her taste for law by editing the Chicago Legal News, a paper which is highly prized by members of the legal profession. A few months ago, on the court's own motion, every member of the Supreme Court acquiesced in granting a license to her upon the original motion.

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