- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Scipio Jones' Brief to the Supreme Court Regarding the Elaine Twelve
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1921
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - People:
- Jones, Scipio Africanus, 1863-1943
- Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Scipio Jones, a prominent African-American attorney from Little Rock, represented the twelve men convicted for their supposed involvment in the Elaine Race Massacre in 1919. Jones wrote this brief, entitled "Arkansas Peons" and published in the NAACP's magazine The Crisis in anticipation of the U.S. Supreme Court's review of the case.
Elaine Race Massacre -- Elaine Race Riot -- Elaine Twelve -- Elaine -- Phillips - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/1674
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:1674/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
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