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Charlotte E. Ray (January 13, 1850 – January 4, 1911) was the first African-American female lawyer in the United States. Ray graduated from Howard University School of Law in 1872. She was also the first female admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, and the first woman admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Her admission was used as a precedent by women in other states who sought admission to the bar.〔 Ray opened her own law office and ran advertisements in a newspaper run by Frederick Douglass. However, she only practiced for a few years because prejudice against African Americans and women made her business unsustainable.〔 Ray eventually moved to New York, where she became a teacher in Brooklyn. She was involved in the women's suffrage movement〔 and joined the National Association of Colored Women. ==Early life== Ray was born in New York City to Charlotte Augusta Burroughs and Reverend Charles Bennett Ray. Reverend Ray was an important figure in the abolitionist movement and edited a paper called ''The Colored American''. Charlotte had six siblings, including two sisters, Henrietta Cordelia and Florence. Education was important to her father, who made sure each of his girls went to college. Charlotte attended a school called the Institution for the Education of Colored Youth in Washington, D.C., graduating in 1869. It was one of a few places where a black woman could gain proper education. After this Ray became a teacher at Howard University in the Normal and Preparatory Department, which was the University's Prep School. While teaching at Howard, she registered in the Law Department, as C. E. Ray.〔 Charlotte Ray graduated Phi Beta Kappa on February 27, 1872, completing a three-year program, as the first woman to graduate from the Howard University School of Law. While in law school she is believed to have specialized in corporate law. She has been identified as the woman referred to by General O. O. Howard, the founder and first president of Howard University, as having "read us a thesis on corporations, not copied from the books but from her brain, a clear incisive analysis of one of the most delicate legal questions."〔Thomas, Dorothy. "Ray, Charlotte E. (1850-1911)", in ''Black Women in America'', Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine. Oxford African American Studies Center.〕 Others suggest that Mary Ann Shadd Cary was the person in question. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charlotte E. Ray」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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