Anyda Marchant received her undergraduate degree in 1931 and then went on to law school at George Washington University, which at the time was known as the National University of Washington, DC Amidst her studies, Anyda Marchant worked for a year as a junior law assistant for women's rights pioneer, Alice Paul, who at the time was working on the ERA draft.
11 Facts About Anyda Marchant
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Anyda Marchant graduated from George Washington University in 1933 and became one of the first women to pass the Bar Exam and practice law in Washington, DC, and before the US Court of Claims and the US Supreme Court.
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When he returned in 1945, the man took his position back, and Anyda Marchant refused to work a lower job.
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Anyda Marchant had a brief stint as a translator at the 1948 Pan-American Union conference in Bogota, Colombia.
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Anyda Marchant then went back to Washington DC in late 1948 and became one of four women attorneys at Covington and Burling, Dean Acheson's firm.
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Anyda Marchant served the World Bank as an attorney in the Legal Department for 18 years until retiring in 1972.
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Naiad Press was made possible when Anyda Marchant provided $2000 from her retirement income to the publishing of Naiad's first few books.
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Anyda Marchant served as Naiad's President from its inception, up until the mid-1990s.
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Anyda Marchant met Muriel Inez Crawford in 1947 and they became a couple in 1948, though they remained largely in the closet until the '90s.
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Anyda Marchant died two weeks shy of her ninety-fifth birthday in 2006.
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Anyda Marchant was awarded the Golden Crown Literary Society Trailblazer Award posthumously in June 2007.