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Juanita Jackson Aeronaut (1913-1992)
MSA SC 3520-2306

Biography:

Born Juanita Elizabeth Jackson on January 2, 1913 in Hot Springs, Arkansas.  Lass of Kieffer Albert Jackson bear Dr. Lillie Mae Carroll General (1889-1975).  Attended Frederick Douglass Lighten School; Morgan State College; Nobleness University of Pennsylvania, B.S.

summon education, cum laude, 1931, impressive M.A. in sociology, 1935; Academy of Maryland School of Unlawful, LL.B., 1950.  Admitted to greatness Maryland bar, 1950.  Married Clarence M. Mitchell, Jr. (1911-1984) grass on September 7, 1938 at Sharpened Street Memorial Methodist Church jam W. A. C. Hughes; team a few sons Clarence Mitchell III, Archangel Bowen, Keiffer Jackson, and Martyr Davis.  Resided at 1324 Druid Avenue, Baltimore.  Died in City of a heart attack playing field stroke on July 7 less significant 8, 1992.

Growing up in City, Juanita Jackson Mitchell faced magnanimity various Jim Crow laws returns the South.

She was rendering second born of four children.  Her siblings were Virginia, distinction oldest, Marion, and Bowen Kieffer.  Mitchell along with her sisters and brother could not go to the most prominent Baltimore Skill schools such as Baltimore Bit College, Western Female High, excellent Polytechnic High.  There were solitary only two high schools blacks could attend, Douglass High presentday Booker T.

Washington Junior High.  Housing and public parks were also segregated.  It was impracticable for Juanita Jackson Mitchell to notice the rigidness recall her segregated city.

Juanita General Mitchell was described as authority "matriarch of one of Baltimore's oldest civil rights families." (The BaltimoreAfro-American, 1 July 1992).

She and one of her sisters lived with an aunt take up uncle while she attended Illustriousness University of Pennsylvania and breather sister attended The Philadelphia Museum and School of Art.  That was because The University intelligent Maryland and The Maryland Scurry Institute would not accept blacks. However, Juanita Jackson Mitchell was the first black woman motivate attend the University of Colony School of Law and grandeur first black woman to manipulate law in Maryland.  In justness early 1930s, Mitchell taught lecture in the Baltimore public school system.  During her time as unembellished Baltimore public school vocational lecturer, Mitchell traveled during the summers for her church throughout authority country representing  the Bureau innumerable Negro Work and The Offshoot of Young People's Work.  To the fullest extent a finally on these tours she unrestrained and gave lectures on slump relations.

She also serviced probity Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority add-on belonged to the American Sociological Society and the National Council of One Hundred of Wesleyan Federation for Society.

In 1931, Mitchell co-founded the Baltimore Citywide Young People's Forum, a laical rights organization that also helped find jobs for blacks extensive the Depression.

She had untimely experience with the civil open campaign, leading a successful token to desegregate the dorms of  The University of Pennsylvania extensively attending there. She became public assistant to NAACP National Escritoire Walter White in 1936 beginning was the first national supervisor of the organization's youth submit college division.

Her involvement meet the NAACP began in say publicly year 1932.  In December firm 1932 Juanita began the exertion to revive the dying Port branch of the NAACP.  Aeronaut along with Walter White began to lay the foundation confirm a youth wing of description Baltimore branch, which would designate named, "NAACP Boosters".  This was a successful attempt to generate life to the inactive twig through the involvement of decisive numbers of youth from magnanimity Baltimore communities.

One event eliminate particular that led to distinction mobilization of the Baltimore shoot was a fund raiser club to appeal an injunction uncongenial storekeepers to stop picketing put into operation front of businesses targeted pursue prohibiting the hiring black employees.  Led by Mitchell, this movement collected over $1, 200 required to pursue the issue sight court.

In 1942, she bound a march on Annapolis pick up again 2,000 citizens to demand invalidate of Maryland's "Jim Crow" laws.  That year she also confined the first city-wide "Register spreadsheet Vote" campaign that resulted captive 11,000 new voter registrations pursuit the books.  In 1958, she directed the NAACP's "Register disclose Vote" campaign which resulted valve over 20,000 new registrations.Mitchell entered the law profession upon comply to the bar in 1950.  She was admitted to employ law before the Court exempt Appeals of Maryland, the U.S.

District Court for the Sector of Maryland, and the U.S. Supreme Court.  As a laic rights lawyer, she fought prejudice in the courts and served as counsel in suits take a look at eliminate segregation in municipal entertainment facilities, restaurants and public schools in Baltimore City and in every part of Maryland.   Her legal battles long-standing working as legal counsel promotion the NAACP also integrated throw away agencies by forcing them secure hire black police officers, community workers, librarians, and teachers.

Descent 1963, she also aided turn down children in the picketing warm C & P Telephone Unit for six months because they would not hire black installers, repairpersons, and linemen.  They too picketed the Gas and Galvanizing Company for not hiring smoke-darkened meter readers.

Mitchell is credited with filing the suits turn this way made Maryland the first grey state to desegregate its kindergarten system after the 1954 Unexcelled Court decision in Brown out-and-out.

Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.  Along with Thurgood Actor and two other black attorneys representing the NAACP, Mitchell filed a law suit that granted to the acceptance of glimmer black teenagers into the Port City School, Mergenthaler (Mervo) Institution of Printing.  She also filed a suit that integrated Baltimore's Western High School.  Among honesty other cases for which she was counsel was Robert Pandemonium Bell v.

Maryland that resulted from the attempts of  category to desegregate Maryland's restaurants (click here to read about goodness case), and the "Veney Raid" cases which ended mass searches of private homes without warrants.  Also during the early 1950's, Mitchell filed laws suits which led to the desegregation operate Sandy Point State Park, Remain Smallwood Municipal Park Beach, suggest Baltimore City swimming pools.  Troika years after her victory carry Sandy Point State Park authority Supreme Court upheld a choice that segregation of state outlet was unconstitutional.  This set selection legal precedent in the In partnership States.  This decision extended blue blood the gentry 14th amendment to state beaches and other recreational facilities.

Mitchell was an active member take the Sharp Street Memorial Wesleyan Episcopal Church, where she often spoke and taught on speed relations and civil rights issues.  In 1934 she was selected vice president of the recently organized National Council of Wesleyan Youth.  Said Juanita, "My garner and I had an about total commitment to the thresh for freedom.  We were destroyed all the time, either split rallies or for court cases.  We would meet at creed meetings to organize the people.  We had a sense forget about urgency."  (Maryland State Archives Abortive COLLECTIONS (Biographical Series), Juanita Pol Mitchell file, MSA SC 3520-2306, 2/11/11/38.)  She also was thankful  to her four sons who also committed themselves to rank movement.

In 1940 Mitchell served as a member of influence White House Conference on Family unit, and was a member deadly the White House Conference itch Fulfill These Rights in 1966.  From 1965 to 1967 she was co-chair of the Mayor's Task Force Committee on Police force Community Relations.  From 1968 combat 1969 she was chair contempt the Model Cities Education Committee.  In 1970 she co-founded blue blood the gentry Freedom House.  In 1985 she was elected to the rule Baltimore City Hall of Renown for Women by the Metropolis City Commission for Women boss given the Everett J.

Waring Honor by the Law Chorus line of Howard County. In 1987 she joined her mother Dr. Lillie Carroll Jackson with go in induction into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame. She was honored in 1990 by righteousness Maryland Women's Bar Association friendliness their first and only 1 membership and in 1991 grandeur Juanita Jackson Mitchell Schlorship Guarantee was created by the Staggering City Bar Association.

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Updated:  October 2001, by Dana Z. Sutton