Macon Bolling Allen went on to become the nation's first African American judge and was a partner at the first Black-led firm ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WBOY) — 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. Through the ...

He practiced here until the 1960s and was the only Black lawyer in the state at the time of his death. “Three African American lawyers in 120 years!” the article reads. It wasn’t until 2000 ...