- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Railroad Conductor Arrested for Civil Rights Violation
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1873-08-02
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- An article describing the circumstances leading to the arrest of Cairo and Fulton Railroad conductor L.R. Brown.
Civil Rights -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
CIVIL RIGHTS AGAIN. A conductor on the Cairo and Ful- ton Arrested Charged with Violating the Civil Rights Bill. ____________________ yesterday morning a partu of colored people, Agnes Hand, Sallie Lee, Hender- son Hand, Polly Bridges and Squire Dave McWhorter, appeared at the Cairo and Fulton railroad depot, and demanded en- trance into the rear of the car. The brakeman, who had orders to distribute the passen- gers, sent the colored people to the car ahead. They refused to go, and went to the conductor, who happened to be Mr. L. R. Brown, and he refused to countermand the order. They then removed their bag- gage from the train. On the arrival of the train from Arka- delphia last night. Mr. Brown was ar- rested by Constable Garrett, (col.), who brought along another colored man to aid in the arrest, and took him before Squire McWorther, (col.), who was one of the par- ties that appeared with the others at the train but whose name was omitted from the complaint. The Squire took Mr. Brown's personal recognizance to appear at 9 o'clock this morning. As conductor, Brown has been one of the most polite of all the very polite officials of the Cairo and Fulton railroad, we know the entire community will join us in ex- pressing the opinion that in this matter he has acted not otherwise than from a severe sense of duty, and the sympathies of all right-thinking people must necessa- rily be with Mr. Conductor in this matter. Everybody know that civil rights are to be respected, but there is such a thing as the "right" of a conductor to conduct his own train. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1639
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1639/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Original Collection:
- Arkansas Gazette
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
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