EDITH S. SAMPSON, Black lawyer and judge, was born on this day 10/13/1898.
One of eight children born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania to Louis Spurlock and Elizabeth A. McGruder, she went on to become the FIRST BLACK DELEGATE appointed to the UNITED NATIONS.
She later married and moved to Chicago, where she studied law at night while working full-time during the day as a social worker, graduating at the top of her class from John Marshall Law School in 1925.
Mrs Sampson opened a law office on the South Side of Chicago in 1924, which served the Black community for years.
She practiced law until her death in 1979.
To read her incredible and inspiring bio GOOGLE her name
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