The First African American Woman to Serve in the Federal Bench

On Friday, I did the Today Show with someone from the Board of Education. And then a customer of my father's came into the store who was a lawyer and he said he volunteered services. So Roy Lucas and this other gentleman became my attorneys. And we sued the Board of education. We actually settled out of court because she told the Board that she encouraged them to do another medical exam. So they did. And so I was granted my license. Then it took a good number of months for me to actually get a jobBecause so many of the schools were not accessible. But I was given a job offer to work in the same elementary school that I had gone to. The first classes