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She Earned The First Law Degree Ever Given To An American Woman And She Wasn’t Allowed To Use It

Barred from practicing law because she was a woman.

Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!

Who was the first woman in the United States to graduate from law school, earning her degree with honors from the institution we now know as Northwestern in 1870?

Hint: When she tried to put it to use, her home state refused to license her — for the sole reason that she was a woman.

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