BLACK LAWYERS' HISTORY

BLACK LAWYERS' HISTORY IN MASSACHUSETTS AND MISSOURI Black lawyers were already actively practicing law in Boston (1845) and in Missouri (1871), even before the first blacks had graduated Harvard Law School (1869) or University of Missouri Law School (1968), despite the propinquity of slavery, which ended in Massachusetts in 1783 and in Missouri in 1865. Source: EMANCIPATION: THE MAKING OF THE BLACK LAWYER, 1844-1944, by J. Clay Smith , Jr. SJD, (1993), pp. 94-112, 331.