Mahala Ashley Dickerson (Oct 12, 1912 Montgomery, Alabama - February 19, 2007 Wasilla, Alaska) grew up in Alabama on a plantation owned by her father. She attended a private school, Miss White's School, where she began a lifelong friendship with Rosa Parks, who would become a hero of the civil rights movement. Dickerson graduated from Fisk University in 1935, married Henry Dickerson and had triplets, Alfred, John and Chris (a well known professional bodybuilder).
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| Born: | October 12, 1912 |
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| Died: | February 19, 2007 |
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Delayed Justice For Sale is the astonishing life story of Mahala Ashley Dickerson, Alabama's first black female attorney. Told simply and eloquently, it is a story of almostunbelievable courage in the face of adversity www.dickerson-gibbons.com/ |
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Dickerson, who was raised in the South before the era of civil rights, blazed a trail for black women in the world of law. Aside from her accomplishments in Alaska, she became the first female attorney in her home state of Alabama in 1948 and the second www.davedraper.com/fusionbb/showtopic.php?tid/11325/ |
