About Bessye Anita Warren Bennett
Lived 1938 – 2000. Bessye Anita Warren Bennett was a lawyer.
Bessye Anita Warren Bennett (1938–2000) was Connecticut's first African American female lawyer.
She was born on August 16, 1938, in Prairie View, Texas to educators Dr. Samuel Enders Warren and Juanita McBroom. Bennett graduated from Radcliffe College in Boston, Massachusetts in 1954, and married John Bennett (a Harvard University student at the time) shortly thereafter. By 1964, the couple eventually settled with their children in Hartford, Connecticut. Since she was working as an educator, Bennett earned a master's degree in education at Trinity College.
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Connecticut’s first African American female lawyer
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Bessye Anita Warren Bennett died in 2000.
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