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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.
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
Activists said Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, that Esmeralda Gallardo, who led efforts to find her missing 22-year-old daughter, was killed in Mexico, the fourth murder of a volunteer search activist in ...
The grandmother of a 1-year-old Macon boy who prosecutors allege was killed by his mother’s boyfriend early last year testified at a bond hearing Thursday, saying the boyfriend was “cold ...
Although the Ridulph family remained convinced McCullough was the man who kidnapped and killed 7-year-old Maria in 1957, according to ABC 7, he was granted his freedom in 2016.
Authorities in Alabama allege a missing 1-year-old boy — whose disappearance came to light after his family members died in a car crash months after he was last seen — suffered gruesome abuse ...
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