Oral history interview with Annette Elstein, 1996

Biographical Note

Attorney-at-law

Scope and Contents

Childhood: family life, progressive minded father, working mother, Hell's Kitchen; Education: BA government and social studies Cornell University, JD/LLB 1942 Columbia University, differences between two universities, women students; career: Mutual Life Insurance Company, Prentice Hall, Legal Aid Society, inunigration law, job search, seeking employment as a female attorney, discrimination in the workplace; pursuing a career in law while raising children

Subjects

• Columbia University. School of Law--Alumni and alumnae.
• Elstein, Annette--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lindauer, Susan, interviewer.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Women lawyers--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2002