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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Peggy Cooper Davis
Peggy Cooper Davis
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| Other authors / contributors: | Davis, Peggy Cooper, 1943- interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Recorded New York, New York 2016 July 12.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Judge and professor Peggy Cooper Davis was born on February 19, 1943, in Hamilton, Ohio. She received her B.A. degree in philosophy from Western College for Women and her J.D. degree at Harvard Law School in 1968. After graduation, Davis went on to serve as a clerk under Judge Robert L. Carter. She then became involved with the Capital Punishment Project with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. Later, Davis eventually became the first African-American woman to serve as a teacher at Rutgers School of Law in 1978. In 1980, Davis was appointed as the judge of the Family Court of the State of New York, where she worked for three years. Soon after that position, in 1992, Davis was named the John S. R. Shad professor of Lawyering and Ethics at NYU School of Law.
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