L. Amasa Knox Explained

L. Amasa Knox (1869 – August 10, 1949) was an American lawyer, civil rights activist, and state legislator in Missouri. He served in the Missouri House of Representatives in the late 1920s.[1] [2] He lived in Kansas City, Missouri where he worked as a lawyer,[3] and also held leadership positions in the NAACP Kansas City office.

Biography

L. Amasa Knox was born in 1869 in Virginia.[4] As a child he attended the First Baptist Church of Sussex, Virginia. He supported himself in his early career as a blacksmith.

Knox graduated from Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute (now Virginia State University), initially with the college preparatory coursework in 1890, followed by a A.B. degree in 1894. He graduated from law school in 1897 from Howard University School of Law.

In 1919, he represented two boys who fled peonage in Arkansas and were facing extradition back to Arkansas for monies allegedly owed.[5]

Knox served as president of Kansas City's NAACP branch,[6] and was elected along with fellow African Americans Walthour Moore and G. M. Allen in 1927.[7]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Coulter, Charles Edward . Take Up the Black Man's Burden: Kansas City's African American Communities, 1865-1939 . 2006 . University of Missouri Press . 978-0-8262-6518-0 . 158–160 . en.
  2. News: 1949-08-19 . L. Amasa Knox, 'Dean' of Kansas City Lawyers and City Counseler Aide, Dies . 2023-12-31 . The Call . 3 . Newspapers.com.
  3. Book: Missouri's Black Heritage. Lorenzo Johnston. Greene. Gary R.. Kremer. Antonio Frederick. Holland. September 21, 1993. University of Missouri Press. 978-0-8262-0904-7 . Google Books.
  4. Book: Bacote, Samuel William . Who's Who Among the Colored Baptists of the United States . 1913 . Franklin Hudson Publishing Co. . The Library of Congress . Kansas City, MO . 49–50 . L. Amasa Knox, L.B., LL.B., LL.M. . Internet Archive.
  5. Web site: September 21, 1919 . NAACP Annual Report . National Association for the Advancement of Colored People . Google Books.
  6. Web site: The Crisis. William Edward Burghardt Du. Bois. September 21, 1936. Crisis Publishing Company. Google Books.
  7. Web site: Crisis. William Edward Burghardt Du. Bois. September 21, 1927. Crisis Publishing Company. Google Books.

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