Name	Gloria Alred
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Naionality	American
Date of Birth	July 3, 1941
Place of Birth	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A
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Allred was born in Philadelphia, on July 3, 1941. After high school, she attended the University of Pennsylvania. There she met her first husband and married. The couple had their first child, Lisa, in 1961. Shortly afterwards, Allred and her husband divorced.

A newly single mother, Allred moved back in with her parents and continued her studies in school, graduating with honors with a bachelor's degree in English in 1963. She tried her hand at a variety of jobs before she decided to become a teacher. After taking a position at Benjamin Franklin High School, she began working on her master's degree at New York University. While there, she became interested in the civil rights movement, which was beginning to gain momentum. After earning her master's degree in 1966, she returned to Philadelphia to teach at a high school.[citation needed]

Allred moved to Los Angeles and married her second husband, William Allred, in 1968. They divorced in 1987.[citation needed] Allred received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1975.