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Born in Indiana as A. Macon Bolling, he moved to New England at some point in the early 1840s and changed his name to Macon Bolling Allen in Boston in January 1844. [1] Soon after, Allen moved to Portland, Maine and studied law, working as an apprentice to Samuel Fessenden, a local abolitionist and attorney. The Portland District Court rejected ...
According to some sources, Morris and Macon Bolling Allen opened America's first black law office in Boston, [5] but the authors of Sarah's Long Walk say there is "no direct knowledge that [Allen and Morris] ever met", [6] nor is such a partnership mentioned in Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944.
In Husband, Father, Killer: The Alyssa Pladl Story, premiering Oct. 19 at 8/7c on Lifetime, viewers will follow the lives of Alyssa (Jackie Cruz) and her ex-husband Steven (Matthew MacCaull), who ...
Macon is a masculine given name borne by: Macon Bolling Allen (1816–1894), believed to be the first African American to become a lawyer and to argue before a jury, and the second to hold a judicial position in the United States; Macon Blair (born 1974), American film director, producer, screenwriter, comic book writer and actor
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A man was killed by police after they say he fatally shot his wife and their 2-year-old daughter, and also injured their two other children, in Louisiana. Authorities responded to the shooting ...
Harvey Johnson. After passing a bar exam in Maine in 1844, [2] Macon Bolling Allen became the first African American lawyer in the United States. [3] In 1865, John Swett Rock became the first Black person to be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. [4]
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