Greetings Colleagues, Today I'm celebrating Violette Neatley Anderson, who in 1926 became the first African American female attorney admitted to practice before the United State Supreme court. Born in London, England in 1882, Anderson's family immigrated to the United States and settled in Chicago, Illinois. She was one of the first women of any race in the state of Illinois to engage in private law practice. Anderson was active in lobbying Congress to pass the Bankhead-Jones Act, providing tenant farmers and sharecroppers low-interest loans to buy small farms. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the bill into law in 1937. 2014 Membership Meeting web page Follow this link http://hbculibraries.org/html/2014MemMeeting.html to access presentations and photos from the 2014 meeting. Thanks to everyone for submitting their materials. Thanks to the Atlanta University Center (AUC) staff for creating the historical recognition video. We have been informed that licensing does not permit posting the file to the web. Feel free to share the video as part of a presentation. Follow this DropBox link https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0uhpcqyt5xhgf8j/AACtOX6IllsSC9WPw3X9PZB2a?dl=0 to access the historical recognition video. Enjoy! Sandra SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-702-5854 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.