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Tilting at Windmills? Judge Justine Wise Polier and a History of Justice and Education in New York City

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Jennifer de Forest
Jennifer de Forest*
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Judge Justine Wise Polier, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
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Judge Justine Wise Polier

In 1935 Justine Wise Polier (1903–87), an intense young labor lawyer serving on New York City's Committee on Unemployment Relief, was pressuring Mayor Fiorello La Guardia to expand the city's welfare benefits. Thinking he would mollify her, La Guardia promoted Polier to the bench of the city's children's court, making her the first woman to rise above the position of magistrate in New York State.

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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 49 , Issue 1 , February 2009 , pp. 68 - 88
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