On April 4, 2020, the coronavirus (COVID-19) claimed the life of Lila Fenwick, the first black female graduate of Harvard Law School. She was 87. Fenwick was the daughter of immigrants from Trinidad. Her father was a landlord who owned properties in Harlem and the Bronx. She graduated from Barnard College in New York City in 1953 and earned a juris doctorate at Harvard three
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