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Breaking barriers: Judge keeps civil rights dream alive in Kansas City
Hardwick first Black woman on MO appellate court
41 Action News talks to the first Black female judge to serve on the Missouri Court of Appeals.
and last updated 2021-02-19 08:04:14-05
KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Judge Lisa White Hardwick is no stranger to pressure. She first felt pressure as a 7-year-old girl in Kansas City, Missouri, in the days after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. died.
âIntuitively, it helped me to understand the connection between law and civil rights and that if weâre going to have a fair and free society, truly, we had to enforce our civil rights,â she said.