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A Brief Homage to a Golden-Age Mexican Cinema Actress — Senator Silvia Pinal Hidalgo

Posted by: Jennifer Davis

This is a guest post by Francisco Macías, head of the Iberia/Rio Office Section in the African, Latin American, and Western European Division (ALAWE) of the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate. Francisco was formerly a senior legal information analyst in the Law Library of Congress.    Born on September 12, 1931, in the port city of …

Posted in: Collections, Global Law, Guest Post, In the News, Women's History

Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin: Ojibwe Lawyer and Suffragist

Posted by: Jennifer Davis

This Women’s History Month, we look back to women who worked to advance women’s suffrage. One such notable figure is Marie Louise Bottineau Baldwin, who worked to advance the rights of Native peoples and women, particularly Indigenous women.   Born in 1863 in Pembina, North Dakota as a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of …

Posted in: Collections, Law Library, Native Americans, Women's History