EntityQ28658852· pop 6· linked from 15 articlesViolet King HenrySign in to saveFirst Black graduate of the University of Alberta's faculty of law and the first Black woman to practise law in Canada after being called to the bar in 1954.ConnectionsChicagoEntityCalgaryEntityCalgary HeraldEntityNew York CityCityIllinoisEntityAlbertaEntityEdmontonEntityGreat DepressionEntityNewarkEntitydigital object identifierEntityColumbia UniversityEntitycriminal lawEntityPierre TrudeauEntityactivismEntitydomestic violenceEntitycivil rights movementEntityoppressionEntityUniversity of AlbertaEntityWorld Alliance of YMCAsEntityGoogle DoodleEntityCategories1929 births1982 deaths20th-century African-American lawyers20th-century African-American women20th-century American lawyers20th-century American women lawyers20th-century Canadian lawyers20th-century Canadian trade unionists20th-century Canadian women lawyersAfrican-American women lawyersBlack Canadian trade unionistsBlack Canadian women