Mary Ann Shadd Cary - Editor, Lawyer - Biography.com
She is still relevant today in the land of Donald John Trump and on the TOTV Political Forum.
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When the Civil War broke out, Mary Ann Shadd Cary returned to the United States to help in the war effort. In 1863, she worked as a recruiting officer for the Union Army in Indiana, and encouraged African Americans to join the fight against the Confederacy and against slavery. After the war, Cary became a pioneering spirit in a new direction, earning a law degree in 1883 from Howard University. She was the second African-American woman in the United States to earn this degree.
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