- Collection:
- Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Title:
- African-American Workers Threatened
- Creator:
- New York Times
- 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:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Article from the New York Times regarding the arrest of eleven white planters, who were threatening black sawmill workers.
Blacks -- African-Americans -- Whitecapping -- Violence -- Poinsett County -- Poinsett
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 of 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 Poynsett 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 insti- gation of the mill owner. ________________________________ The New York Times Published: August 23, 1903 - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.uark.edu/cdm/ref/collection/Civilrights/id/718
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.uark.edu/iiif/2/Civilrights:718/manifest.json
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact Special Collections for information on copyright.
- Original Collection:
- New York Times, August 23, 1903
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
- Rights:
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