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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.
First African American male (justice of the peace): Macon Bolling Allen in 1847 [4] [5] First African American male (judge): George Lewis Ruffin (1869) in 1883 [1] [2] [3] First Jewish American male: Abraham K. Cohen in 1912 [13] First African American male (juvenile court): G. Bruce Robinson in 1948 [14] [15]
Macon Bolling Allen is believed to be both the first black man licensed to practice law and to hold a judicial position in the United States. Jane Bolin was both the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School and serve as a judge in the United States. Thurgood Marshall was the first black Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Two parents allegedly tried to choke their 17-year-old daughter outside her high school in an attempted “honor killing” for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man, according to police.
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Serial Killer’s Daughter Confronts Him Behind Bars Over Explosive Diary Entry That Suggests She Too Was Victim April Balascio as a child. "But it was hard having to upend everything," she shared.
Massachusetts General Colored Association Notice, April 27, 1833 in The Liberator (anti-slavery newspaper). The Massachusetts General Colored Association was organized in Boston in 1826 to combat slavery and racism.
The leader of the family’s mosque in Allen calls for greater mental health awareness and for those who are hurting to seek help. North Texas community mourns Allen family of 4 killed in ...