Buried in the Anchorage Times coverage was a single line explaining why she came to Alaska, “at the request of a childhood friend, attorney Mahala Ashley Dickerson.” Alaska newspapers ...

Mahala Ashley Dickerson, the state’s first black lawyer, died Monday at her family homestead in Wasilla after a short illness. She was 94. Dickerson, who was raised in the South before the era ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 21, 2007 -- Mahala Ashley Dickerson, the first African-American female lawyer to be admitted to the Alabama Bar, died on Monday at her homestead in Wasilla ...