Blog 38

Dorothy Frooks was an incredible lawyer in her time. She was a veteran of world war 1 and 2, for both the army and navy. She worked as a writer for the New York Evening World and published the Murray Hill News in 1952. She also wrote a pamphlet, entitled Labor Courts Outlaw Strikes, calling for the establishment of a labor court. She was well known for she social and political activism. Frooks established free legal clinics, and she lobbied to set up small claims courts. Frooks died in 1997 at the age of 101.