Land of (Unequal) Opportunity. This collection of images, broadsides, pamphlets, and publications documents the changing nature of civil rights in Arkansas from the territorial ...

1. A Call for Excluding Free Blacks from Arkansas: Exclusion Act, Free Persons of Color: Circular appearing in the Arkansas Gazette in July 1858, and signed by prominent men of the ...

Scipio Africanus Jones (3 August 1863 - 2 March 1943) was an African-American educator, attorney, judge, philanthropist, and Republican politician from the state of Arkansas.

Scipio Africanus Jones was a prominent Little Rock (Pulaski County) attorney and one of the city?s leading African-American citizens at the end of the nineteenth century and ...

In many Arkansas counties, as an understood rule, a black lawyer could only appear before the bench when accompanied by a white attorney.

Hibbler was born in Arkansas in 1884. He first appears in politics with Scipio Jones in opposition to the 1891 ?separate car bill? that segregated railway coaches in Arkansas.

U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder has proposed legislation to name the post office at 1700 Main Street after Scipio A. Jones, the groundbreaking black lawyer.

Caecilia47 sear5 #1379: Q Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio, AR denarius. 47-46 BC, African Mint. Q METEL PIVS Laureate head of Jupiter right, in archaic style / SCIPIO IMP Elephant ...

The Mosaic Templars Building Preservation Society celebrates Black achievement in Arkansas ... Scipio Jordan, who later started the Knights and Daughters of Tabor - whose headquarters ...

As a result of efforts to integrate the public schools in North Little Rock-, Arkansas, the Scipio A. Jones Junior-Senior High School was closed at the end of the 1970 school year.