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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.
Ellen Craft was born in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, to Maria, a mixed-race enslaved woman, and her wealthy planter slaveholder, Major James Smith. At least three-quarters European by ancestry, Ellen was very fair-skinned and resembled her white half-siblings, who were her enslaver's legitimate children.
The six victims killed in a chain-reaction crash near Columbus were three students, two parents and a teacher. 'All heartbroken': 3 students, a teacher and 2 parents killed in Ohio bus and semi ...
Vanker is demanding justice for the death of her 18-year-old son, who was killed in a car crash when his friend barreled into a lamp post at 105 mph. She wants the mother of the driver charged ...
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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
A driver veered off road and died in east Macon Sunday morning, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said. The single-car crash occurred in the 2300 block of Shurling Drive just after 2 a.m ...