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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.
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]
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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.
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.
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