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	Scipio Africanus Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scipio Africanus Jones (1863-1943) was an African-American attorney, judge, and Republican politician from the state of Arkansas.
		Jones worked as a school teacher and read law in the offices of three white attorneys until he was accepted into the Arkansas bar in 1889.
		Jones successfully lobbied for a pardon from the Governor of Arkansas and the men were released in 1925.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scipio_Africanus_Jones (678 words)

	Wikinfo \| Scipio Jones
		Scipio Africanus Jones (1863 - 2 March 1943) was an African-American attorney, judge, and Republican politician from the State of Arkansas.
		Scipio Africanus Jones was born a slave in approximately 1863 near Tulip in Dallas County, Arkansas.
		Jones is most famous for his skillfull defense of the 12 fl sharecroppers sentenced to death for participation in the Elaine Race Riot in 1919.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Scipio_Jones (699 words)

	Scipio Africanus Jones
		However, Judge Jones, appointed to the bench in 1915, was primarily noted for his defense of twelve fl men who in 1919 were convicted of murder after race related violence in Philips County, Arkansas.
		Jones subsequently made an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court for the remaining six defendants, whose cases were returned to federal district court for trial.
		The Scipio A. Jones House on Cross Street is one of the eight historically-fl properties in the neighborhood surrounding Dunbar Junior High being nominated to the National Register of Historic Places.
	www.nathanielturner.com /scipioafricanusjones.htm (1568 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Soldiers and Sailors by Charles Horne
		Scipio proved that his army was in the best possible condition; and the commissioners were so surprised at what they saw, that instead of recalling the consul, they bade him sail to Africa as soon as he might think it proper, and to adopt any measures that he might think useful.
		Scipio, in consequence of this, sailed in B.C. 204 as proconsul, with a large army, from Lilybæum to Africa, and landed in the neighborhood of Utica.
		Scipio, fearing the influence she might have on Massinissa (for she was a Carthaginian), claimed her as a prisoner belonging to the Romans, and Massinissa poisoned her, to save her from the humiliation of captivity.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=horne&book=soldiers&story=scipio (3007 words)

	Scipio A. Jones House
		Jones was one of the prominent members of Little Rock’s fl community during the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
		Jones' successful appeal on their behalf resulted in his receiving national recognition during the 1920s.
		Although the house on Pulaski Street was Jones’ residence during the period when he was representing the Elaine Race Riot defendants, the more substantial and stylish house on Cross Street represents the fruit of his career because it was made possible by the wealth he accumulated during his many years as a lawyer.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2425.html (714 words)

	Scipio Africanus Jones: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Scipio Africanus Jones was born a slave in approximately 1863 near Tulip in Dallas County, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		Jones worked as a school teacher and read law in the offices of three white attorneys until he was accepted into the Arkansas bar in 1889, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
		Jones was elevated to co-counsel and took the lead in guiding the appeals process and successfully saw the case to the Supreme Court of the United States (The highest federal court in the United States; has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/scipio_africanus_jones (1630 words)

	CNN.com - Career - African-American attorneys of Arkansas - February 27, 2001
		Among the notable personalities Kilpatrick researched was Scipio Africanus Jones, who was born into slavery and died in 1943 after a distinguished legal career.
		Named after a Roman general, Jones is primarily noted for his defense of 12 fl men who in 1919 were convicted of murder after race-related violence in Phillips County, Arkansas.
		Jones -- whose father was a prominent white man -- worked with a firm of white lawyers to free the 12.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/CAREER/trends/02/27/lawyers (1368 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow . Jim Crow Stories . Moore v. Dempsey \| PBS
		One of the lawyers was Scipio Africanus Jones, an African American born into slavery.
		Although the sentences of six of the defendants were upheld on appeal, six others were sent back for retrial on technicalities.
		Jones and other local attorneys argued that the presence of the mob outside the court during the trial made it impossible for the defendants to have a fair trial.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_moore.html (307 words)

	The History of Jim Crow
		Jones, Claudia: (1915-1964) Claudia Jones was born in relative poverty in Trinidad and migrated with her family to the United States in the 1920s.
		Claudia Jones was caught up in the McCarthy era, and was both jailed and deported for her controversial and outspoken views.
		Jones, Scipio Africanus: (1865-1943) A Little Rock attorney who defended twelve fl farmers unjustly sentenced to death in 1919 for allegedly killing a white man during a race riot in which whites killed at least 25 and perhaps as many as 200 fls.
	www.jimcrowhistory.org /scripts/jimcrow/glossary.cgi?term=j&letter=yes (3642 words)

	Paula Jones: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jones now claims she was victimized by both Clinton and his Republican (A tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas)
		Jones subsequently appeared in a boxing match against Tonya Harding[for more info, click this link] in Fox TV (The fox broadcasting company, usually referred to as just fox, is a television network in the united states...)
		Scipio Africanus Jones (Scipio africanus jones (1863-1943) was an african-american attorney, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
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	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Jones, S to T (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Jones, Sandy (born c.1951) — also known as Mrs.
		Jones, Sheila — of Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga. Democrat.
		Jones, Tom — of Canadian, Hemphill County, Tex. Democrat.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/jones8.html (759 words)

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	A-list message, Re: [A-List] more backdrop to the 1920s
		Scipio Africanus Jones: Black Attorney and Judge, Civil Rights Activist and Businessman Named after a Roman general, Scipio Africanus Jones was born into slavery, probably late 1863.
		Although no whites were arrested, 143 fls were taken into custody and 12 were convicted of first-degree murder in less than twenty minutes.
		Above right: Arkansas Gov. Charles Brough, right, accompanied federal troops to Elaine in 1919 The NAACP soon hired a white Little Rock attorney, George W. Murphy, to appeal the convictions.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/a-list/2003w41/msg00004.htm (1766 words)

	Wikinfo \| Elaine Race Riot
		Twelve of the defendants were convicted of murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair.
		In years to come, Scipio Africanus Jones, an African-American attorney from Arkansas would successfully guide the appeals of the 12 men to the Supreme Court and gain national attention.
		Six of the men's convictions were dismissed in 1923 after the Supreme Court ruled that the men had not received due process.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Elaine_Race_Riot (581 words)

	Bood in Their Eyes (Book Review) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		So Blood in Their Eyes is required reading for every Arkansas lawyer, because this time Grif Stockley reviews the work of a real Gideon Page, a fl lawyer named Scipio Jones who read law to become licensed and became one of Arkansas' outstanding lawyers.
		Jones is credited with one of the most important cases in American history, Moore v.
		Jones was not hired until late November, after all 12 have been convicted.
	www.nathanielturner.com /boodintheireyes.htm (1559 words)

	Little Rock, Arkansas
		Another example is the Scipio A. Jones House, which stands as the most richly detailed Craftsman-style houses.
		It was built around 1928 for Scipio Africanus Jones, an African-American attorney.
		The Thomas R. McGuire House, listed in National Register of Historic Places on December 19, 1991, is unique by virtue of its being a relatively high-style interpretation of the Colonial Revival style.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2085.html (1016 words)

	Video Line - Recent Films
		The Elaine Riot: Tragedy and Triumph is the story of a massacre of perhaps as many as two hundred fl farmers in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 as they tried to organize a union and sue their white landlords for money rightly owed them.
		Twelve fl farmers who were sentenced to death on the false charge of murder were saved and eventually released due to the efforts of Scipio Africanus Jones, a fl lawyer in Arkansas working with the NAACP.
		Farmville is a documentary in which former students narrate the story behind the famous student strike at the all-fl Robert Russa Moton high school in Farmville, Virginia in 1951.
	www.videolineproductions.net /films.html (830 words)

	H-Net Review: Rob Widell on Blood In Their Eyes: The Elaine Race Massacres of 1919
		Stockley's portrait of Scipio Africanus Jones, the local fl attorney who headed up much of the Elaine Twelve's appeals, will be of considerable interest to readers concerned with the dilemma that segregation presented to southern fl leaders.
		The implication of this decision was that at least some of these fl elites were willing to sacrifice the lives of the Elaine Twelve for future political and economic influence.
		Stockley does acknowledge that some fl leaders, Scipio Jones in particular, were reluctant to challenge the governor for fear that it would impact negatively their ability to secure pardons for the Elaine Twelve.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=144421031912800 (2696 words)

	Elaine Race Riot - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The NAACP for a time attempted to conceal its role in the appeals, given the hostile reception its report on the violence and the trials had received.
		Once it undertook to organize the defense it went to work vigorously, raising more than $50,000 and hiring Scipio Africanus Jones, an African-American attorney from Arkansas, and Colonel George W. Murphy, a Confederate veteran, former Attorney-General for the State of Arkansas and unsuccessful candidate for Governor on the Progressive Party ticket.
		The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of the six other defendants, rejecting the challenge to the all-white jury as untimely and finding that the mob atmosphere and use of coerced testimony did not deny the defendants the due process of law to which they were entitled.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Elaine_Race_Riot (1377 words)

	Courts Arkansas
		See live article Scipio Africanus Jones Scipio Africanus Jones (1863-1943) was an African-American attorney, judge, and Republican politician from the State of Arkansas.
		Scipio Africanus Jones Scipio Africanus Jones was born a slave in approximately 1863 near Tulip in Dallas County, Arkansas.
		Garland (11 June 1832 - 26 January 1899) was an Attorney General of the United States, Democratic United States Senator, Confederate States Senator, Confederate States Representative, and Governor of the State of Arkansas.
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	Boethius, Educator, Statesman, Philosopher
		Other names are added for various reasons, or simply to reduce confusion with others having the same nomen and cognomen.
		Thus, in the name Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, the "Africanus" is an agnomen ("accomplishment name"), indicating that this is the General Who Conquered Africa.
		Philosophy has told Boethius that God is all-knowing, that He transcends time, and sees all things and all events, past, present, and future, in one timeless act of awareness.
	justus.anglican.org /resources/bio/274.html (2954 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003023640
		Jones Austin Jones James F. (Prophet Jones) Jones Nancy Jones Henry Jones Charles O.
		Jones Gene Olivar Jones Walter Jones Edward Smythe Jones Friday Jones Lauren Jones Anna H. Jones Dr.
		Jones Milton Jones John Raymond Jones Joshua Henry Jones Grace Jones David "Deacon" Jones K.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip0410/2003023640.html (10040 words)

	Rome - Vol II, Chapter XVI - Notes
		Jones has suspended the pursuit of Oriental learning.
		[107: Italica, founded by Scipio Africanus for his wounded veterans of Italy.
		[109: Pacatas compares, and consequently prefers, the youth of Theodosius to the military education of Alexander, Hannibal, and the second Africanus; who, like him, had served under their fathers, (xii.
	www.cca.org /cm/rome/vol2/note26.html (6564 words)

	Guide to Selected Manuscript Collections
		Mounted clipping from unidentified periodical, publishing ex change of correspondence, October 26 and November 24, 1874, between F. McCauley of West Salem, Ohio and John T. Jones, Master of State Grange, Little Rock, regarding conditions in Arkansas with respect to treatment of Republicans, Negroes, and northerners.
		Photocopy of undated letter, written at Berlin, from Dwight to Charles Sumner, pertaining to political and diplomatic affairs in the United States and Prussia.
		Persons to whom the letter relates include Robert Apthorp, Jeremiah Jones Colbath, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, and Joseph Albert Wright.
	libinfo.uark.edu /specialcollections/manuscripts/Sizerguide.asp (6317 words)

	China History Forum, online chinese history forum > Rome vs Han
		Africanus quidem Scipio, cum aduersum Numantinos, qui exercitus populi Romani sub iugum miserant, esset acie certaturus, aliter se superiorem futurum esse non credidit, nisi in omnibus centuriis lectos sagittarios miscuisset.
		But nearly a third or a quarter of the young men who are more capable must be trained at every opportunity at those same stakes with wooden bows and practise arrows.
		Indeed, Scipio Africanus, when facing the battle line of the Numantines (who sent the Roman people under the yoke) did not consider himself superior, unless he had mixed selected archers in all centuries.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /lofiversion/index.php/t8627-650.html (12516 words)

	Old South tries to save its symbols (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But the dorm was placed there to honor the effort made during the Civil War.
		It was a very innocent act, and very progressive for that time," said Douglas Jones, the group's attorney.
		Ruin came after them, fourteen years later, riding the arm of Scipio Africanus -- but they were focussed on the bottom line.
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