Kensi Gounden - Biography of Macon Bolling Allen, First Black US Lawyer.

Kensi Gounden - Macon Bolling Allen was the first recorded licensed African American lawyer in the United States. He was a self-taught lawyer who gained his knowledge and legal skills by serving as an apprentice and law clerk to practicing white lawyers in the pre-Civil War era.

Negros as they were referred to in those times received their training by apprenticeship; however, they could not depend upon the practice of law for a living. They had to work at other crafts. Allen was also known as a businessman, but the nature of the business is not known. Little is known about Allen's early years other than the fact that he was named A. Macon Bolling when he was born a “Free Negro” in Indiana in 1816, the same year Indiana was admitted as the nineteenth state to join the Union. He was listed as “mulatto” race on early census forms.

Kensi Gounden - Biography of Macon Bolling Allen, First Black US Lawyer.

Allen learned how to read and write as he grew up, and his first job in Indiana was that of a schoolteacher. On July 3, 1844, Allen passed the exam and became licensed to practice law. Yet, despite earning the right to practice as a lawyer Allen was unable to find much work as lawyer for two reasons. One, many white people were not willing to hire a Black attorney and two, there were very few African Americans living in Maine.

Allen decided to relocate to Charleston following the Civil War. Once settled, Allen opened a law office with two other African American lawyers , William J. Whipper and Robert Brown. The passing of the Fifteenth Amendment inspired Allen to become involved in politics and he became active in the Republican Party. After becoming licensed to practice law in Boston, Allen caught the attention of abolitionists, such as William Lloyd Garrison. Allen attended an anti-slavery convention in May 1846 in Boston. At the convention, a petition was passed around in opposition to involvement in the Mexican War. Allen died on October 10, 1894, in Washington D.C. He was survived by his wife and one son.

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