Wiley Jones

Walter “Wiley” Jones of Pine Bluff (Jefferson County), an ex-slave who became one of the first wealthy African Americans in the South; circa 1880.

African-American man with mustache in suit and bow tie

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

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