Carsie Hall

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Carsie Alvin Hall Sr. (1908-1989) was a lawyer who handled civil rights cases in Mississippi. [1] He represented the Mississippi NAACP and served as president of the Jackson, Mississippi branch of the NAACP. [2] He defended civil rights activists arrested during the Freedom Summer. [3]

In 1927 he graduated from Jackson College High School and in 1935 he graduated from Jackson College. He worked as a mail carrier to pay his way through law school. [4] He and Sidney R. Redmond studied law together. [5]

In 1962 he wrote a letter announcing the formation of the Voters' League and was its president. [6] In 1964 he was refused access to inmates at a Mississippi jail. [7]

Richard Haley wrote him about the Otha Williams and Lula Bell Wright cases. [8]

He played dominos. [4]

He and Jack Young are honored at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. A historical marker commemorates him along with fellow Jackson civil rights attorneys R. J. Brown and Jack Young. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Grove, Garret (March 1, 2025). "Black jurists break barriers in Mississippi legal history". WJTV.
  2. ↑ "Hall, Carsie A. - Civil Rights Digital Library". crdl.usg.edu.
  3. ↑ Jr, Clarence Mitchell (August 16, 2022). The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume VI: The Struggle to Pass the 1960 Civil Rights Act, 1959–1960. Ohio University Press. ISBN   978-0-8214-4746-8 – via Google Books.
  4. 1 2 Obituary
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Correspondence, page 1: Letter from Carsie A. Hall announcing formation of The Voters' League, January 19, 1962., | DPLA". Black Women's Suffrage | DPLA.
  7. ↑ "52 DENIED COUNSEL IN MISSISSIPPI JAIL (Published 1964)". The New York Times . June 1964.
  8. ↑ https://www.crmvet.org/lets/640615_core_letter4.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  9. ↑ "Mississippi Freedom Trail Names Eight New Markers". Visit Jackson.
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