The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022
SCOTUSBlog
DECEMBER 31, 2022
As associate counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the 1960s, she helped litigate civil-rights cases in the South. In 1948, Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat took a job as a legal secretary at the NAACP in New York City. And in 1981, she wrote one of the first law-review articles on domestic violence.
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