T. G. Ewing Explained

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

He 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

Notes and References

  1. Book: Hustwit, William P.. Integration Now: Alexander v. Holmes and the End of Jim Crow Education. February 5, 2019. UNC Press Books. 978-1-4696-4856-9 . Google Books.
  2. Book: Smith (Jr.), John Clay. Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. February 28, 1999. University of Pennsylvania Press. 0-8122-1685-7 . Google Books.
  3. Web site: On Juneteenth, Nashville and our nation honor the formerly enslaved | Opinion. David. Ewing. The Tennessean.
  4. Web site: Prince Albert Ewing. Lewis L.. Laska. August 27, 2022. Nashville Historical Newsletter.
  5. News: VicksburgEveningPost Jan 4 1910. Vicksburg Evening Post . January 4, 1910. 5. newspapers.com.
  6. Web site: Official Report of the Proceedings of the ... Republican National Convention Held in .... Republican National. Convention. February 29, 1912. General Secretary of the Convention. Google Books.
  7. Web site: Letter from T. G. Ewing to S. D. Redmond, November 17, 1926. credo.library.umass.edu.
  8. Web site: NAACP Vicksburg Branch, residents honor civil rights hero Dr. David Foote. John. Surratt. August 14, 2023. The Vicksburg Post.
  9. Book: Smith (Jr.), John Clay. Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. February 28, 1999. University of Pennsylvania Press. 0-8122-1685-7 . Google Books.
  10. Web site: Historic Events in Nashville's African American Community. David. Ewing. February 2, 2023. Nfocus.
  11. Web site: A Tale of Two Nashville Giants: Napier & Looby's Legacy of Law. issuu.
  12. Web site: E. C. Morris, 1855-. Sermons, Addresses and Reminiscences and Important Correspondence, With a Picture Gallery of Eminent Ministers and Scholars.. docsouth.unc.edu.
  13. https://www.thehistorymakers.org/sites/default/files/A2007_095_EAD.pdf

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