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Alberta Jones (Alberta Odell Jones) 
Alberta Jones (Alberta Odell Jones)
Kentucky, United States
Civil Rights Pioneer Alberta Odell Jones the first African-American woman to pass the Kentucky bar exam and the first woman to serve as a city attorney in Jefferson County. She was killed in in 1965, when, at 34, she was brutally beaten and thrown into the Ohio River to drown. Her murder remains unsolved.
JOINED: 5 years ago
HONORS:
LAST 12 MONTHS: 0
AWARDED: 0
LAST ACTIVE: NEVER
<“I believe her death was directly related to the work she was doing,” said Professor Remington, who teaches at Bellarmine University in Louisville. “If there was a list of people she would have stood up to and made mad, it would be five pages long.”> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/us/alberta-jones-murder-louisville.html?action=click&contentCollection=opinion&module=NextInCollection®ion=Footer&pgtype=article&version=spotlight&rref=collection%2Fspotlight%2Frace&fbclid=IwAR3XIbFAIBcejHanDpceE90U4OkEdbNSgj7c2gHZqV0k-RBHMvliazRUrg0
ACCOUNT: : In Memoriam :
Kentucky, United States
Civil Rights Pioneer Alberta Odell Jones the first African-American woman to pass the Kentucky bar exam and the first woman to serve as a city attorney in Jefferson County. She was killed in in 1965, when, at 34, she was brutally beaten and thrown into the Ohio River to drown. Her murder remains unsolved.
JOINED: 5 years ago
HONORS:
3
LAST 12 MONTHS: 0
AWARDED: 0
LAST ACTIVE: NEVER
<“I believe her death was directly related to the work she was doing,” said Professor Remington, who teaches at Bellarmine University in Louisville. “If there was a list of people she would have stood up to and made mad, it would be five pages long.”> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/us/alberta-jones-murder-louisville.html?action=click&contentCollection=opinion&module=NextInCollection®ion=Footer&pgtype=article&version=spotlight&rref=collection%2Fspotlight%2Frace&fbclid=IwAR3XIbFAIBcejHanDpceE90U4OkEdbNSgj7c2gHZqV0k-RBHMvliazRUrg0
ACCOUNT: : In Memoriam :
Honors Received