ABSTRACT
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born on March 15,1933, in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. Her parents, Nathan and Celia Bader, were both the children of Jewish immigrants who had arrived in New York City during the early 1900s. Ginsburg attended Public School 238 in Brooklyn from 1938 to 1946. As an eighth grader, she edited the Highway Herald, a mimeographed student newspaper. Entitled “Landmarks of Constitutional Freedom,” her essay identified five great documents in the history of human freedom: the Ten Commandments, the Magna Carta, the English Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Charter of the United Nations. Each one of these, wrote the young editor, had by its very existence played a major role in the shaping of history. In spite of Ginsburg’s outstanding record as a law student, no New York law firm offered her a job.
