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How Iowa’s 1st African-American woman lawyer ended up as ‘the Sunday School Lawyer’
In 1918, Gertrude Durden Rush became the first African-American woman to be called to the Iowa Bar.Her professional journey started as a teacher from 1898 to 1907 after she graduated from high school in Quincy, Illinois. Her legal interest was stirred when she married Des Moines attorney James B. Rush in 1907. She started learning…
