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Macon Bolling Allen (born Allen Macon Bolling; August 4, 1816 – October 15, 1894) was an American attorney who is 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.
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 Native American male (Great and General Court of Massachusetts): Watson F. Hammond in 1885 [13]
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 February 2022, The Macon Newsroom also broke the news that Brown was under a 2019 court order to return a client’s $40,000 investment, plus interest, dating back to 2011. The sum owed now is ...
The lawsuit alleges that the program violates Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, a Civil War-era law that bars racial bias in contracting, and asks a judge to issue an injunction ...
Charles Allen (Massachusetts politician) Ebenezer Allen (Texas politician) Fred J. Allen; Frederick Hobbes Allen; Gideon Winans Allen; Henry D. Allen; John Allen (soldier) John J. Allen (judge) John J. Allen (New York politician) Macon Bolling Allen; Robert E. Lee Allen; Samuel G. Allen; Thomas Allen (representative) William Ross Allen; William ...
A judge has dismissed the $100 million lawsuit that Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group filed last year in California state court against McDonald’s. Allen’s lawsuit, filed last May in Los ...
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