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African American Perspectives: Pamphlets from the Daniel A.P.Murray Collection, 1818-1907

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The black laws / speech of Hon. B.W. Arnett of Greene County, and Hon. J.A. Brown of Cuyahoga County, in the Ohio House of Representatives, March 10, 1886.

Arnett, Benjamin William, 1838-1906.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State Journal, 1886.

SUMMARY
Arnett examines the civil rights of African Americans in Ohio, Jim Crow laws and segregation, and African American education in Ohio schools, and he pleads for repeal of Ohio's segregation laws, the text of which are reproduced here. Arnett, a prominent AME cleric, represented Greene County in the Ohio State legislature from 1885-87.

NOTES
Cover title.

"Black laws of Ohio since 1802": p. [29]-40.

Title transcription and imprint supplied from OCLC.

Reference: OCLC 4896267

LC copy imperfect: cover wanting.

SUBJECTS
Afro-Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.--Ohio--History.
Segregation--Law and legislation--Ohio.
Afro-Americans--Civil rights.
Addresses--Ohio--Columbus--1886.

RELATED NAMES
Brown, J. A. (Jere A.)
Ohio. House of Representatives.

MEDIUM
40 p., [2] leaves of plates : ports. ; 21 cm.

CALL NUMBER
E449 .D16 vol. D, no. 6

PART OF
Daniel Murray Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)

DIGITAL ID
lcrbmrp t0d06 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/lcrbmrp.t0d06

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