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When You Can Be A Judge, But Not A Citizen

Some Black legal history to start Black History Month.

Diverse Social JusticeEd. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!

In 1848, Macon Bolling Allen, though not allowed to be a citizen of the United States at the time, became the first African-American judge when he qualified as a justice of the peace in what state?

Hint: After the Civil War, Allen moved to Charleston, South Carolina, and was elected as a probate judge there.

See the answer on the next page.

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