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- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- Acts of Arkansas 1891
- Publisher:
- Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1891
- Subject:
- African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- legislative acts
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Arkansas Act 17 of 1891provided for segregated railroad accomodations.
Civil Rights -- Segregation -- Racism -- Blacks -- African-Americans -- Railroads -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
16 ACTS OF ARKANSAS. at all their passenger depots in this State. Provided, That this section shall not be construed to apply to street railroads. No person or persons shall be permitted to occupy seats in coaches or in waiting-rooms other than the ones assigned to them on account of the race to which they belong. Sec. 2. That the officers of such passenger trains and the agents at such depots shall have power and are hereby required to assign each passenger or person to the coach or compart- ment or room used for the race to which such passenger or person belongs. Any passenger or person insisting on going into a coach or compartment or room to which by race he does not belong, shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and any officer of any rail- road company assigning a passenger or person to a coach or compartment or room other than the one set aside for the race to which said passenger or person belongs, shall be liable to a fine of twenty-five dollars; and should any passenger refuse to occupy the coach or compartment or room to which he or she is assigned by the officer of such railway company, said officer shall have power to refuse to carry such passenger on his train, and that should any passenger, or any other person not a pas- senger, for the purpose of occupying or waiting in such sitting or waiting-room not assigned to his or her race, enter said room, said agent shall have the power and it is hereby made his duty to eject such person from such room, and for such acts neither they -or the railway com,'.my which they represent shall be liable fr damages in ar.y of the courts of'this State. Sec. 3. That all railway companies that shall refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions and requirements of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, ar.d shall, upon conviction before any court of competent jurisdiction, be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more three five hundred dollars, and every day that such railway company shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act, and every train run in violation of the provisions hereof, shall be a separate offense and any conductor or other employees of such passenger train - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/678
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:678/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Original Collection:
- Acts of Arkansas 1891
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights: