African-American lawyer Scipio Africanus Jones was admitted to practice law in the Pulaski County Circuit Court in 1889 and the Arkansas Supreme Court in 1900. He assisted families during the Argenta Race Riot in 1902 and later worked to free twelve black men sentenced to death following the Elaine Massacre in 1919.
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