Description: “A generation which ignores history has no past – and no future.” Robert A. Heinlein
Nashville Historical Newsletter
an avenue for historical sharing
by Lewis L. Laska African-American lawyers have practiced in Nashville at least since 1868, when Alfred Menefee, a grocer, received a license to practice before justices of the peace. Menefee thus became the first black office holder in Nashville, also being named magistrate by 1897. Nineteenth century licensing, rather informal, involved two types of licenses…