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3 unusual facts about Jewel Lafontant


Jewel Lafontant

Jewel earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Oberlin College in 1943.

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In 1946, she was the first African American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School.

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Jewel Lafontant married John W. Rogers, Sr., a former member of the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, on December 7, 1946; they had one child, investment executive John W. Rogers, Jr. (born 1958).



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