Looby, Z. Alexander (Zephaniah Alexander), 1899-1972

found: NUCMC data from Fisk Univ. Libr. for Burt, R.T. Papers, 1893-1972(Zephaniah A. Looby)

found: WW in colored Amer., 1950(Looby, Z. Alexander; atty.; b. Antigua, B.W.I., Apr. 8, 1899; lawyer and teacher; prof. Fisk University)

found: NUCMC data from Fisk Univ. for Zephaniah Alexander Looby papers, 1922-1981(d. 1972)

found: 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)

found: NUCMC data from Moorland-Spingarn Research Center (Howard Univ.) for His Interview, 1967 Nov. 29(Z. Alexander Looby; civil rights attorney, Nashville, Tenn.)