Pioneering Female Attorney Celebrated In Film
By Alabama NewsCenter Staff
Alabama Public Television is presenting a new documentary this month that remembers the achievements of attorney Nina Miglionico, a crusader for civil rights and women’s rights in Alabama for decades.
The film, “Stand Up, Speak Out,” produced by Birmingham attorney Jenna Bedsole, will broadcast Sunday, Feb. 19, at 5 p.m. and Thursday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m. on APT.
One of Alabama’s first female lawyers – and the longest-practicing female lawyer in the state when she died in 2009 – Miglionico was elected to the Birmingham City Council in 1963, the year the city transitioned from the commissioner-based system. Miglionico would serve on the council for 22 years, despite hate mail and death threats linked to her civil rights advocacy. She was even the target of a failed bombing attempt in 1965.A major cause for Miglionico was the right for women to serve on juries. Women in Alabama could become attorneys and even judges before they could be jurors. That right was finally granted in 1975.
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