African-American lawyer Scipio Africanus Jones, shown here working at his desk in 1915, 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 African-American men sentenced to death following the Elaine Massacre in 1919.
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