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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 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.
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Ellen Craft was born in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, to Maria, a mixed-race enslaved woman, and her wealthy planter slaveholder, Major James Smith. At least three-quarters European by ancestry, Ellen was very fair-skinned and resembled her white half-siblings, who were her enslaver's legitimate children.
A huge search is underway for a Georgia teacher last seen more than a week ago celebrating his 50th birthday on a fishing boat with his fiancée — who was found dead in the lake the next day.
A trial date has been set for a man who fled Cleveland County nearly seven years ago while facing child sex abuse charges. Ronald Lee Burns, 67, is charged with statutory sex offense with a child ...
Macon Bolling Allen (1816–1894), judge of the Charleston County, South Carolina, Criminal Court Michael P. Allen (born 1967), judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims William J. Allen (1829–1901), judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois