Youth and Education
Sampson was one of eight children born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. to Louis Spurlock and Elizabeth A. McGruder. She left school at 14 due to family financial difficulties, and found a job cleaning and deboning fish at a market. She later returned to school and graduated from Peabody High School in Pittsburgh. She then went to work for Associated Charities, and studied at the New York School of Social Work. One of her instructors, George Kirchwey of Columbia, encouraged her to become an attorney.
She married Rufus Sampson and they moved Chicago. There, she studied law at night while working full-time during the day as social worker. She graduated from John Marshall Law School in 1925, winning a special dean's commendation for ranking at the top of her jurisprudence class.
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