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AC Hall was shot and killed by two white policemen in Macon, Georgia in October 1962.

This was eight months after the successful bus boycott by Black residents.

Because of that, Macon's Black community knew how to exert pressure on the white community.

And in the days after the death of AC Hall, they began to apply the pressure again.

First came a mass rally, then a petition campaign, then a quiet protest marched to City Hall

into the Bibb County Courthouse. Hundreds of Black residents walked along the sidewalks in

war-black armed bands. They carried signs that were at stop the senseless killing.

And we weep for justice. The Black residents of Macon were not going to let the shooting of AC Hall

drop. Surprisingly, neither was the coroner of Bibb County.

One man who was about to witness this protest first hand was Howard Moore Jr., a young Black lawyer

from Atlanta. He was fresh out of Boston University Law School, trying to find a path to a career in

law in Georgia. I have to tell you the odds were against him. Out of more than 3,000 lawyers and

judges in the state, all but 12 were white. 12. The most prominent among those Black lawyers in

the South was Donnelly Hollowell, his nickname, Mr. Civil Rights. You may recall in a previous

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