THIS DAY AT LAW
Today in legal history...
Monday, May 03, 2010
World Press Freedom day
May 3 is
World Press Freedom Day
.
On May 3, 1845, Macon B. Allen, the first African American to practice law in the United States, was admitted to the Massachusetts bar.
Read a
contemporary newspaper account
of his admission.
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