THE IMMIGRANT'S DAY IN COURT.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1923. Original printed wrappers. [20], 546 pp, with half title. From the AMERICANIZATION STUDIES series directed by Allen T. Burns. Bound in original publisher's cloth. Several light wrapper chips, Near Fine.
Claghorn [1864-1938] was a pioneering woman sociologist, author, reformer, and economist. "In her 1923 book, The Immigrants' Day in Court, Claghorn argued that the legal aid available at the time was inadequate, focusing primarily on legal minutiae rather than on understanding the actual issues affecting their clients, and that it inappropriately excluded female attorneys from serving. She also reported on the injustice caused by inadequate translation for non-English-speaking legal clients, and on the sexual harassment of female workers by job placement workers and supervisors. Writing about this book in 2003, British historians Kristofer Allerfeldt and Jeremy Black called it 'the one significant contemporary study of the immigrant and the American legal system'." ["Kate Claghorn", Wikipedia.]
She has been called "the Progressive Era Paladin of Immigrants' Rights" [Johnson, Marianne; Fiorito, Luca (2024, January 15), "Kate Holladay Claghorn: Progressive Era Paladin of Immigrants’ Rights", Website of Social Science Research Network (SSRN), accessed January 2026.].
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