| 词条 | Ida Platt |
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Ida Platt (September 29, 1863 – 1939) was an American lawyer, based in Chicago. In 1894, she became the first African-American woman licensed to practice law in Illinois, and the third in the United States. Early lifeIda Platt was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Jacob F. and Amelia B. Platt. Her father owned a lumber business.[1][2] She worked as a stenographer and secretary to pay her way at law school, and learned German and French in her work.[3] She also studied piano as a young woman.[4] Platt was the first African-American woman to graduate from Chicago-Kent College of Law when she finished in 1894.[5] CareerIda Platt was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1894,[6] becoming the first African-American woman lawyer in that state, and the third in the United States.[7][8] She worked in the Chicago office of Joseph Washington Errant, practicing probate and real estate law. In 1896 she spoke at the national convention of the Colored Women's League in New York City, on "Woman in the Profession of Law".[9] She opened her own law office downtown in 1911.[5] She was a member of the Cook County Bar Association.[7] Personal lifeIda Platt's cousin Richard Theodore Greener was the first African-American graduate of Harvard College, dean of Howard's University School of Law, and a diplomat in Siberia; his daughter Belle da Costa Greene was a prominent librarian.[10] Platt married in 1923, at age 61, and moved to England. She died there in 1939, aged 76 years.[5] Today there is public housing for seniors in Chicago named the Ida Platt Apartments in her memory.[11] References1. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9084607/obituary_for_jacob_f_platt_1888/ "Obituary: Jacob F. Platt"] Inter Ocean (February 18, 1888): 2. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 2. ^Robert L. McCaul, [https://books.google.com/books?id=_nd8mwcwBnwC&lpg=PA180&dq=Ida%20Platt&pg=PA180#v=onepage&q=Ida%20Platt&f=false The Black Struggle for Public Schooling in Nineteenth-Century Illinois] (SIU Press 2009): 180 fn 18. {{ISBN|9780809380534}} 3. ^Mrs. N. F. Mossell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=j7B2AAAAMAAJ&dq=Ida%20Platt&pg=PA20#v=onepage&q=Ida%20Platt&f=false The Work of the Afro-American Woman] (G. S. Ferguson Company 1908): 20. 4. ^James B. Bradwell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=LY5GAQAAIAAJ&dq=Ida%20Platt&pg=PA397#v=onepage&q=Ida%20Platt&f=false "The Colored Bar of Chicago"] Michigan Law Journal 5(1896): 397. 5. ^1 2 "Girls Want to Study Law: 100 Years of Women Graduates" online exhibit, Scholarly Commons, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. 6. ^[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5533407/lebanon_daily_news/ "Ida Platt, Lawyer"] Lebanon Daily News (August 24, 1894): 3. via Newspapers.com{{open access}} 7. ^1 Cook County Bar Association, About Us, History. 8. ^"First to Practice Law. Ida Platt, the Pioneer Colored Woman Attorney" Chicago Tribune (December 4, 1897): 16. 9. ^LaVonne Leslie, [https://books.google.com/books?id=1PENu3w8PGMC&lpg=PT79&dq=Ida%20Platt&pg=PT79#v=onepage&q=Ida%20Platt&f=false The History of the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs, Inc.] (Xlibris Corporation 2012). {{ISBN|9781479722655}}{{Self-published inline|certain=yes|date=January 2018}} 10. ^Heidi Ardizzone, [https://books.google.com/books?id=x6iD6R8WPx4C&lpg=PA313&dq=Ida%20Platt&pg=PA313#v=onepage&q=Ida%20Platt&f=false An Illuminated Life: Belle Da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege] (W. W. Norton 2007): 313. {{ISBN|9780393051049}} 11. ^Appendix A: List of Senior-Designated Properties, Chicago Housing Authority. Further reading
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