Civil Rights Bill of 1873 Test Case

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Collection:: Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
Title:: Civil Rights Bill of 1873 Test Case
Creator:: Arkansas Gazette
Publisher:: Fayetteville, Ark. : University of Arkansas Libraries
Date of Original:: 1873-04-15
Subject:: African Americans--Arkansas
Civil rights--Arkansas
Race discrimination--Arkansas
Segregation--Arkansas
People:: Roland, James R.
Furbush, W.H.
Wheeler, Lloyd, 1907-2005
Location:: United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
Medium:: articles
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: Article describing efforts of state Senator R.A. Dawson to establish a test case for the newly enacted Civil Rights Bill of 1873.
Civil Rights -- Blacks -- Little Rock (Ark.) -- Reconstruction -- Little Rock -- Pulaski
CIVIL RIGHTS Senator Dawson Brings a Test Case, and Gets a Judgement of $25 - The Case to be Taken Into the Higher Courts. Last Thursday night, Senator R.A. Dawson, james R. Roland county clerk; W.H. Furbursh, member of the lower house of the general assembly and L.S. Wheeler, all colored men, went into the open-house saloon, situated on the first floor of Wood's Grand opera-house, on Mainstreet, and demanded a drink. The bar-tender, W.O. Baugh, informed them that it was against the rules of the house to give colored men drings, and that he would not do it. Senator Dawson took the case into court, no doubt proposing to make a test case out of it, and it came up before Squire Pears, yesterday, and the merits of the case were discussed before a jury by Col. Robert A. Howard, for the de- fendant, and V.M. McGebee, a white member of the senate, for the plaintiff. The witnesses in the case were R.A. Dawson, James R. Roland, W.H. Fur- bush and L.S. Wheeler all of whom ap- peared with the exception of Furbush. The following ar the names of the jurors: L.G. Berry, foreman; J.M.S. White, C. C. Fulton, Robert Lace (col.), George Cham (col.), Charles Scott (col.), who after duly considering the case, brought in a veridict as follows: Little Rock, April 14, 1873. We, the jury in the case of the People vs. William C. Baugh, for violation of the fourth section of the civil rights act of the state of Arkansas, find the defendant guilty, and assess the fine of $25. L.G.Berry, Foreman. After the veridic was given, Col. How- ard gave notice of appeal, and the case will be taken to the criminal court. 'Squire Pears little office was crowded with colored people during the trial, among whom were a few whites. Among these present at the time of the verdic was
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Original Collection:: Arkansas Gazette
Contributing Institution:: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Libraries
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