Macon Bolling Allen went on to become the nation's first African American judge and was a partner at the first Black-led firm ...
J.R. Clifford was many things, an activist, an educator, a journalist, a veteran and the first African-American lawyer in the state of West Virginia, and through the efforts of Friends of ...
Online tributes and biographies of Allen often incorrectly use pictures of other Black ... state at the time of his death. “Three African American lawyers in 120 years!” the article reads.