Macon Allen made history by becoming the nation’s first Black lawyer and the first to hold a judicial position, all this at a time when Blacks, according to the U.S. Constitution, were not considered citizens.
A. Macon Bolling was born free in Indiana in 1819, the same year that the state became the 19th to join the Union. The details of his early life are unclear, but it is known that he taught himself to read and write and became good enough at it to land a job as a schoolteacher.
Maine law, at the time, stated that anyone of good moral character could be admitted to the bar. Allen was rejected because, as a Black man, he was not considered a citizen. Allen got around that by applying to be admitted by examination, which he passed. It was in Boston that he met and married his wife, Hannah. The couple had five sons, John, Edward, Charles, Arthur and Macon B. Allen Jr., all of whom became schoolteachers.
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