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I couldn't find the source for this quote from Alexander-Ralston's father, so I replaced it with another: “education was essential to equip his family for life." If someone likes this quote and can find the source please feel free to add it back! Hobbitina (talk) 04:39, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I'm moving the sources section from a past article version here: these were listed at the bottom but not linked to facts on the page, and now those are referenced using the references list. Some of these sources now appear in the reference list, and others may be good sources for further information:
Lil Thompson, "First N.C. Black Judge, Funny Times Came; So Did Her Only Tears in Court", Winston-Salem J. 32, (September 13, 1984)
Nancy H. McLaughlin, "Judge Ushered in a New Day for Greensboro", Greensboro News & Record, June 14, 1999, pg. A5
Emily Colin & Lynn P. Roundtree, N.C. BAR ASS’N, THE CHANGING FACE OF JUSTICE: A LOOK AT THE FIRST 100 WOMEN ATTORNEYS IN NORTH CAROLINA, 64 (2004).
Wake Forest Law School did not admit black students until 1962.
Eleanor Kennedy, "New Judge Reluctant Pioneer", Greensboro Daily News, December 1, 1968, at E1
J. Clay Smith, Jr., Black Women Lawyers: 125 Years at the Bar; 100 Years in the Legal Academy, 40 HOW. L.J. 365, 378 (1997) (hereinafter Smith) (noting the general unawareness about the role black women lawyers have played in American law and the “dearth of studies solely on black women lawyers and their status in the black community and within the legal structure.” Smith attributes this to the dual subjugation of black women: being black and female); see also Charles H. Houston, "The Need for Negro Lawyers", 4 J. Negro Educ. 49 (January 1935).
North Carolina Lives: The Tar Heel Who's Who 9 (William S. Powell, ed., Historical Record Association 1962)
