- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Black Workers Driven from Sawmill Jobs
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1903-08-23
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- documents (object genre)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- New York Times article describing arrest of eleven prominent white planters on charges of "whitecapping" for forcing blacks from sawmill jobs.
Racism -- African-Americans -- Blacks -- Poinsett County -- Whitecapping -- Wynne -- Cross
WHITECAPPERS AT WORK Drive Negro Hands from an Arkansas Sawmill and Close it. WYNNE, Ark., Aug. 22- A Deputy Mar- shal has arrested eleven prominent white planters from Poynsett County on the charge of whitecapping. The prisoners will be ta- ken to Helena to appear before the United States District Court. The negro laborers employed at a sawmill in Poysett County were recently forced to leave under threats of violance by a band of white planters, causing the mill to sus- pend. The arrests were made at the inti- gation of the mill owner. _____________________________ The New York Times - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/363
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Original Collection:
- The New York Times
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
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