Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Miss Frooks holds a document in front of her as she smiles into the camera. Photograph appears with the article, "Woman Lawyer Relates Clash With First Lady," Los Angeles Times, 17 July 1935: 3. When Miss Frooks wrote to the First Lady and asked for her support for candidacy in running for Congress Frooks was met with the response that she 'take no part in local party politics', but not soon after Roosevelt supported Frooks' opponent Carolyn O'Day. She has established the free milk for babies in New York, attorney for the Salvation Army, and is soon releasing a book entitled "Over the Heads of Congress." Text from newspaper caption: Dorothy Frooks, woman lawyer, who was a child prodigy at 11 years of age, relates her political clash with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt last fall. Handwritten on negative: Miss Dorothy Frooks - 7/16/35 Text from negative sleeve: 1265 - Miss Dorothy Frooks - Women Lawyer + delegate to the American Bar Assn. Convention 7/16/35 [stamped:] Jul 22 1935
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_7642 ark:/21198/zz002dfccw
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Lawyers--California--Los Angeles Suffragists--American--California--Los Angeles Frooks, Dorothy, 1899-1997
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