Looby, Zephaniah Alexander, 1899-1972

Zephaniah Alexander Looby born on April 8, 1899, in AntiguaLooby attended Howard University as an undergraduate,[3] and became a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1922. He went on to earn a law degree in 1925 from Columbia University in New York City, and a doctorate in jurisprudence from New York University in 1926.[2] Looby moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he started as an assistant professor at Fisk University, a historically black college.[2] In July 1928, he passed the Tennessee bar exam and opened his own practice. In 1932, he helped found the Kent College of Law in Nashville.[4] Looby was part of the defense team organized by the NAACP for black men charged in the Columbia race riot of 1946. Looby died on March 24, 1972.

Lawyer and educator at Fisk University, Tennessee A & I College, and meharry Medical College; organized the Kent College of Law to train African American men and women for the law profession; election to the Nashville, Tenn., City Countil (1951-1971); home bombed in 1960 because of his defense of Nashville students who staged a sit-in at lunch counters; d. 1972.