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The lives they lived and the court they shaped: Remembering those we lost in 2022

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In 1948, Cecilia “Cissy” Suyat took a job as a legal secretary at the NAACP in New York City. she represented a white teacher who had been arrested after trying to dine with six Black students at a segregated Mississippi lunch counter. And in 1981, she wrote one of the first law-review articles on domestic violence. 2, 2022).

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