North Carolina Attorney Graduated Top of Her Class In 1924, But Was Unable to Practice Law In Her Home State. Now She’s Being Honored with a Historical Marker In the City That Once Shunned Her.
The first Black woman licensed to practice law in North Carolina had a historical maker named in her honor on a highway in her hometown, Goldsboro, on Wednesday. Ruth Whitehead Whaley received her license to practice law in the state in 1933, but the license was ceremonial, said Ansley Wegner, the administrator of the Highway…