African Americans are considered to be a racial minority, but even with this on our shoulders African Americans can still rise up in their own field of expertise. Take Michelle Alexander as a strong example for an African American,a woman, to become so successful in her life so far. She is a writer, civil rights advocate, and a professor of law at Ohio State University. How did she get to this place in her life? Michelle started as a graduate to Stanford Law School and Vanderbilt University. Succeeding law school, Michelle became a clerk of the court for Justice Harry A. Blackmun,who was on the Supreme Court. As well as, Chief Judge Abner Mikva who was on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia [D.C.] Circuit. Michelle is now a civil rights advocate, lawyer, and professor of law, and legal scholar. But before practicing law, Michelle was a director of the Racial Justice Project for the American Civil Liberties Union,or ACLU, of Northern California. In this position, Michelle organized the Project’s media advocacy, grassroots …show more content…
These private law firms include Goldstein, Saperstein, Demchak & Baller. She specialized in plaintiff-side class-action lawsuits alleging race and gender discrimination. Michelle has innumerous achievements in her lifetime so far. Michelle is married to Carter Mitchell Stewart,who is also a professor at Ohio State University like his wife. Michelle has three kids and is living her life happily. Other acheivements, Michelle won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literacy Work,Nonfiction. Michelle has also written a book named The New Jim Crow:Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Michelle Alexander is paving the way for afarican American woman,as well as African American people as a whole. She has built a foundation for less race driven criminal cases and racial profiling in,at least,the United