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State Bar & Bar Associations

Dec. 6, 2006

Beverly Hills Bar Association Celebrates 75th Anniversary

LOS ANGELES - In 1931, women and blacks could not join the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

By Emma Dewald
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      LOS ANGELES - In 1931, women and blacks could not join the Los Angeles County Bar Association.
      They could, however, join the newly formed Beverly Hills Bar Association.
      The story of that founding, passed down in the group's oral history, is about a group of mostly Jewish lawyers who had been de...

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