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Justice Juanita Kidd Stout
March 7, 1919 – August 21, 1998
The First African American Woman Elected Judge in the United States and the First African American Woman to Serve on a State Supreme Court.
Attorney. Educator. Appointed by President Kennedy to Special ambassador to the Kenya Independence Celebration and served on the White House Conference on Children and Youth.
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More About Justice Juanita Kidd Stout:
- Obituary
- First Black Women Named to State Supreme Court – Philadelphia Daily News January 16, 1988
- Oklahoma Hall of Fame
- “Why Must the Taxpayer Subsidize Immortality?” by Juanita Kidd Stout for Reader’s Digest April 1965
- Oklahoma Historical Society
- Juanita Kidd Stout papers – Library of Congress
- BlackPast
- Wikipedia