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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 ...
First African American male: Macon Bolling Allen (1845) [4] [5] First African American male to try and win a lawsuit in Massachusetts: Robert Morris Sr. (1847) [6] First Chinese American male: Harry Dow (1929) [7]
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.
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A Macon mother and father have been charged with several offenses after investigators found their small children with injuries Thursday, according to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office.
A pedestrian was hit by a vehicle and killed in south Macon Sunday, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputies received a 911 call around 2:30 p.m. regarding someone unresponsive off ...
Harvey Johnson. After passing a bar exam in Maine in 1844, [2] Macon Bolling Allen became the first African American lawyer in the United States. [3] In 1865, John Swett Rock became the first Black person to be admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. [4]
The crash left one dead and five others injured Monday afternoon, according to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office. Man ‘burned beyond recognition’ in fiery crash on I-75 in Macon, coroner says ...