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The Woman McCarthy Named First: Dorothy Kenyon’s Fight for Equal Citizenship

The Woman McCarthy Named First: Dorothy Kenyon’s Fight for Equal Citizenship

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 On March 8, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy stood before a Senate subcommittee and named his first alleged communist: New York lawyer Dorothy Kenyon. Kenyon didn’t back down. “Who in the heck is Joseph McCarthy?” she asked the reporter who broke the news, before calling the junior senator “an unmitigated liar.” She also called him a coward and, as author Jennifer Brinkley puts it, a low-down worm. Then Kenyon went to Washington and took his charges apart. The subcommittee found no evidence against her, but as she later put it, the truth never catches up with the lie. She never received another public appointment. In Justice Was Her Calling: The Fierce and Fascinating Life of Dorothy Kenyon, Brinkley traces the career McCarthy derailed: a municipal court judgeship under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, the first equal pay resolution at the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and decades of pushing the ACLU to take sex discrimination seriously. Brinkley joins host Lee Rawles to discuss Kenyon’s free-love summers at Barn House on Martha’s Vineyard, her partnership with Pauli Murray on White v. Crook, and why her name appeared on Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s brief in Reed v. Reed.
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