Taylor G. Ewing Jr. (1849–1922) was an American lawyer and civil rights advocate in Vicksburg, Mississippi. In the 1930s he was one of six Black lawyers in Mississippi along with Sidney Redmond Sr. in Jackson, and Ben A. Green in Mound Bayou.[1] In 1944, he and W. L. Mhoon of Jackson were the only Black lawyers listed in Mississippi.[2]
Biography
editHe and his twin brother Prince Albert Ewing were born in Nashville, Tennessee. They were born enslaved, and Taylor Ewing escaped slavery in 1861. He worked at Fort Negley, an American Civil War fort in Nashville.[3] Prince Albert Ewing was one of Tennessee's first Black lawyers.[4]
By 1910, he was secretary of the Union Savings Bank in Vicksburg.[5] He was an alternate delegate for Mississippi at the 1912 Republican National Convention.[6] He wrote a letter in 1926 about voter registrations and jury service of African Americans.[7] He had a role in establishing an NAACP branch office in Vicksburg.[8]
He eventually moved to Tennessee but continued to do work in Mississippi including winning a case for brakemen that was heard by the Mississippi Supreme Court.[9] He and his brother had their law office on Fourth Avenue. in Nashville.[10] His brother died in 1921 and he died in 1922.[11]
He was photographed for the book, Sermons, Addresses and Reminiscences and Important Correspondence, With a Picture Gallery of Eminent Ministers and Scholars (1901).[12] Nashville attorney David Ewing gave an interview about his family in 2007.[13]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Hustwit, William P. (February 5, 2019). Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education. UNC Press Books. ISBN 978-1-4696-4856-9 – via Google Books.
- ^ Smith (Jr.), John Clay (February 28, 1999). Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-1685-7 – via Google Books.
- ^ Ewing, David. "On Juneteenth, Nashville and our nation honor the formerly enslaved | Opinion". The Tennessean.
- ^ Laska, Lewis L. (August 27, 2022). "Prince Albert Ewing". Nashville Historical Newsletter.
- ^ "VicksburgEveningPost Jan 4 1910". Vicksburg Evening Post. January 4, 1910. p. 5 – via newspapers.com.
- ^ Convention, Republican National (February 29, 1912). "Official Report of the Proceedings of the ... Republican National Convention Held in ..." General Secretary of the Convention – via Google Books.
- ^ "Letter from T. G. Ewing to S. D. Redmond, November 17, 1926". credo.library.umass.edu.
- ^ Surratt, John (August 14, 2023). "NAACP Vicksburg Branch, residents honor civil rights hero Dr. David Foote". The Vicksburg Post.
- ^ Smith (Jr.), John Clay (February 28, 1999). Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-1685-7 – via Google Books.
- ^ Ewing, David (February 2, 2023). "Historic Events in Nashville's African American Community". Nfocus.
- ^ "A Tale of Two Nashville Giants: Napier & Looby's Legacy of Law". issuu.
- ^ "E. C. Morris, 1855-. Sermons, Addresses and Reminiscences and Important Correspondence, With a Picture Gallery of Eminent Ministers and Scholars". docsouth.unc.edu.
- ^ https://www.thehistorymakers.org/sites/default/files/A2007_095_EAD.pdf