Template:Did you know nominations/Mabel Dole Haden

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The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 talk 12:22, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Mabel Dole Haden

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• ... that Mabel Dole Haden eventually got her law degree at Howard University after she could not afford to complete her bachelor's degree there? Source: At last, in the 1940s, she enrolled at Howard University but ran out of money the semester before she was to graduate. ... Learning that a friend was attending Howard University law school at night, she decided she could, too. She received her law degree in 1948, graduating as president of her class.
  • ALT1: ... that Mabel Dole Haden was one of the first women to get a Master of Laws degree from Georgetown University? Source: she found time to get her master's degree in law from Georgetown University in 1956. She and a classmate were the first women to receive the degree, and Ms. Haden was the first African American woman to do so. + In 1956, she and an African American woman, Mabel Dole Haden, became the first women to receive LLM degrees from Georgetown
  • ALT2: ... that lawyer Mabel Dole Haden once donated a collection of old law books to the Lorton Reformatory prison? Source: Oleander recalled that Ms. Haden regularly collected old law books from firms around the city, using them to help build a law library for the District's now-closed Lorton prison.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Aquilegia kubanica
  • Comment: Requesting a one-day extension if possible.

Moved to mainspace by Miraclepine (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 75 past nominations.

ミラP@Miraclepine 20:27, 1 March 2025 (UTC).

• Will review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:33, 2 March 2025 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Looks good. Nice work. I think I like the initial hook best. BeanieFan11 (talk) 01:26, 2 March 2025 (UTC)