George Boyer Vashon, New York’s first Black lawyer who was admitted to the New York Bar on January 11, 1848. Photo Courtesy of New York courts historical society
New York’s first Black lawyer, a man of many talents, was an abolitionist twice spurned by a bar association in his home state of Pennsylvania, on grounds of his race.
George Boyer Vashon was admitted to the New York Bar in January 1848, according to the Historical Society of the New York Courts, the African American Registry, various press accounts and Duane Morris, the law firm at which Vashon’s great-grandson, Nolan N. Atkinson Jr., was a partner.
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