As a Black lawyer she protested a racial slur during a bar association speech after forging a trail as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan. She died of Covid-19.
Source: New York Times
Barbara Ann Rowan, Who Spurred Advances for Black Lawyers, Dies at 82
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