About Carsie Hall
Lived 1908 – 1989 (aged 80–81). Carsie Hall was a lawyer.
Carsie Alvin Hall Sr. (1908–1989) was a lawyer who handled civil rights cases in Mississippi. He represented the Mississippi NAACP and served as president of the Jackson, Mississippi branch of the NAACP. He defended civil rights activists arrested during the Freedom Summer.
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.
In 1962 he wrote a letter announcing the formation of the Voters' League and was its president. In 1964 he was refused access to inmates at a Mississippi jail.
Richard Haley wrote him about the Otha Williams and Lula Bell Wright cases.
He played dominos.
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.
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Who was Carsie Hall?
American lawyer
When was Carsie Hall born?
Carsie Hall was born in 1908.
When did Carsie Hall die?
Carsie Hall died in 1989.
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Carsie Hall was a lawyer.
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