Scipio Jones

Scipio Africanus Jones, the attorney who led efforts to overturn the death sentences of the Elaine Twelve; circa 1920.

African-American man with mustache in suit and tie

Courtesy of the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, Central Arkansas Library System

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