Hannah Irvin

Graphic by Bell Jackson. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York and went on to graduate at the top of her Cornell University class in 1954.   Later that year, she married her husband, Martin, and had their first child a year later. After Martin served two years in the military, both he and Ginsburg attended Harvard University.   When her husband was diagnosed with cancer, she helped him keep up with his studies while simultaneously maintaining her own classwork. Ginsburg transferred to Columbia University for her last year of school and graduated in 1959.  Ginsburg often...