through college, law school, and into my legal career, i got to know bessie margolin. she was the first female lawyer i ever met, and we were connected by common childhood experiences. bessie and i were both wards of the same southern jewish children's welfare agency which educated both of us at newman school a half century apart. bessie margolin personified excellence in the law and in public service at a time when women attorneys were discouraged -- discouraged if not outright prevented from pour -- pursuing opportunities available to men. while protecting the rights of millions of american workers, she also advanced the careers of countless warriors and other employees many of whom sought out her prestigious and yes demanding [inaudible]. i will share her journey from the social justice to a powerful advocate. she was born in 1909 in brooklyn new york, first american born child of russian jewish immigrants. from there to escape new york's tough and crowded conditions, bessie's family made its way to memphis. about a year after giving birth to a third child, bessie's

and he wisely made bessie margolin a key member of his brilliant legal team. as only woman and she research and are pure witnesses had apparently shaped the brief into landmark supreme court cases that it and help them in the program, tennessee electric power company and in her other worksheet negotiated contracts, and god courtroom experience, all despite - to a woman lawyer a local attorney just an event witnesses and how did she feel about her profession, 1938, she should without in her magazine, is 202 greatly restricted for women it with considerable budget is against them she wrote, and offered her sorority sisters this no-nonsense advice pretty woman attorney must manage to be expected and treated as another man, must be willing to take responsibility criticism and hard work in the same spirit as do the men attorneys and she was same to become one of the men, without however becoming masculine it are overly aggressive in her approach.. it was 1938 as you practice what she preached, throughout her career. in march of 1939, bessie margolin joined the labo

about a year after giving birth to 1/3 child bessie margolin's mother died leaving bessie margolin's father alone to care for his 3 young children. they attracted the attention of a rabbi who petitioned the jewish orphans home in new orleans to accept the children so in 1913 the orphanage admitted bessie margolin at age 4 and her siblings. the home as it was known sat prominently st. charles avenue near the stately mansions of new orleans prosperous citizens. in the home, bessie margolin grew up with 150 other orphans at half orphans from the deep south. the trustees were not content to provide mere subsistence. instead the home groomed bessie as an all-american girl, reflected the values and culture of her prosperous benefactors. addition to reform jewish education the home provided bessie margolin with a robust secular education at the isidore newman school where the cutting-edge curriculum emphasized home economics and woodworking as well as rigorous academics. the home built its unique school to educate but was open regardless of religion to other children, only white children, w

through college, law school, and into my legal career, i got to know bessie margolin. she was the first female lawyer i ever met, and we were connected by common childhood experiences. bessie and i were both wards of the same southern jewish children's welfare agency which educated both of us at newman school a half century apart. bessie margolin personified excellence in the law and in public service at a time when women attorneys were discouraged -- discouraged if not outright prevented from pour -- pursuing opportunities available to men. while protecting the rights of millions of american workers, she also advanced the careers of countless warriors and other employees many of whom sought out her prestigious and yes demanding [inaudible]. i will share her journey from the social justice to a powerful advocate. she was born in 1909 in brooklyn new york, first american born child of russian jewish immigrants. from there to escape new york's tough and crowded conditions, bessie's family made its way to memphis. about a year after giving birth to a third child, bessie's

this is a small-caliber margolin from such a flower that you have killed. is this from in the studio? yesterday i took this one instead of my coffee. well done, in general, how could you even understand? i had a crime scene there. the whole brigade worked. hands touched, no, that's not all. yesterday. in the evening , the owner of the gun called me and offered to exchange the gun for a camera. well, what are you talking about, i contacted dima, he told me to bring the gun here. everything right listen, when did you take your camera to the studio there for repairs? the day before yesterday, the day before yesterday, what time around 4:30? it turns out such a last one who saw kravtsov like the last one and since kravtsov's body was discovered late yesterday in the forest forest. he was shot 12-14 hours before the color was killed, maybe even out of that. listen, i can do something to help. tell me about your last meeting. maybe there was something strange in deriving it or well, i don’t know the model itself. maybe something caught your eye. no, nothing stran

questions, because frances perkins understood that demonstrated the court's unusual interest and bessie margolin's intelligent presentation, thank you. >> you are watching american history tv, explore our nation's past, every saturday on frank micciche. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> more than 300 years ago, the first pioneers crossed the oceans to a new world, a promise of a land where man could build his own house, farm his own acres, raise his children in freedom. they called from the wilderness and empire of agriculture and industry. they set for themselves new and higher standards of living. and yet in one of the great river valleys of america, something went wrong. in the tennessee valley, three centuries later the descendents of the pioneers were a neglected people living in a ruined land. for these children, the hope and promise were dead. the only future was drudgery, the struggle to scratch a bear living from the reluctant soil. even the older men have forgotten the valley was once bright with promise and hope. horace higgins was one of the many who had given up the fight. what is the use, he said. we fill up