Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 2617 0420
https://isni.org/isni/0000000026170420
Name: 
Looby, Z. Alexander
Looby, Zephaniah Alexander
Z. Alexander Looby (American politician)
Z. Alexander Looby (Amerikaans advocaat (?-1972))
Z. Alexander Looby (amerikansk advokat)
Z. Alexander Looby (personnalité politique américaine)
Dates: 
1899-1972
Creation class: 
Language material
Creation role: 
author
Related names: 
Howard University (isAffiliatedWith)
Notes: 
(Zephaniah Alexander)
African American National Biography, accessed February 19, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database (Looby, Z. Alexander; Zephaniah Alexander Looby; lawyer, educator, civil rights activist; born 08 April 1899 in Antigua; second-generation black lawyer; graduated from Howard University (1922); earned a Bachelor of Laws degree from Columbia University School of Law (1925), Doctor of Juristic Science from New York University School of Law (1926); became assistant professor of economics at Fisk University in Nashville (1928); was admitted to the Tennessee bar (1929); taught at Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College (1932-1937); was a member of Omega Psi Phi fraternity and served as the first representative of the fifth district (1938-1941) and as seventeenth Grand Basileus (national president; 1941-1945); chaired Nashville's black bar association (1943-1945); was elected to the city council (May 1951-1971); the Nashville Bar Association admitted him to membership posthumously; died 24 March 1972 in Tennessee, United States)
Associated Group: Howard University Columbia University. School of Law New York University. School of Law Fisk University Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College Omega Psi Phi Fraternity naf
Fuller form of personal name: Zephaniah Alexander
Lawyers College teachers Civil rights workers
NUCMC data from Fisk Univ. Libr. for Burt, R.T. Papers, 1893-1972 (Zephaniah A. Looby)
NUCMC data from Fisk Univ. for Zephaniah Alexander Looby papers, 1922-1981 (d. 1972)
NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Howard Univ.) for His Interview, 1967 Nov. 29 (Z. Alexander Looby; civil rights attorney, Nashville, Tenn.)
WW in colored Amer., 1950 (Looby, Z. Alexander; atty.; b. Antigua, B.W.I., Apr. 8, 1899; lawyer and teacher; prof. Fisk University)
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