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First woman instructor at Washburne Trade School

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Painter Erie Magruder-Jackson becomes an instructor after the school is ordered to remedy the exclusion of women following a lawsuit filed by women apprentices under Title IX, which was then substantiated by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights. CWIT’s workshop, Orientation to the Trades, at Washburne attracted over 700 women.