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Guide To Ac002 - Records Of The Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, Jona Whipple

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Records of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, 1968

Founded in 1902, Phi Alpha Delta is the largest co-ed professional law fraternity in the United States with over 300,000 initiated members to date, approximately one in every six attorneys in the U.S. It was the first law fraternity to admit members of all races, creeds, colors, religions and national origins, as well as the first fraternity to admit women, which took place in September of 1970 with the admission of Anna Carolyn Fox Hinds of McReynolds Chapter.

Phi Alpha Delta was founded due to the Supreme Court’s November 4, 1897 …