Daisy’s Way: The Wild and Tragic Career of Ohio’s First Black Woman Lawyer — Part 1

In the early morning hours of July 6, 1927, a burst of gunfire erupted over the East Side of Columbus. When the shooting was over, a Black woman named Mary Hill and her son Elias both lay bloody and severely wounded inside their home at 609 Grove Street. The shooter was Mary Hill’s own son-in-law, a Black man named Leon Knight, who quickly fled the scene…

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