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Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century (Annotated)..

Mifflin Wistar Gibbs was a Little Rock (Pulaski County) businessman, a politician, and the first elected African American municipal judge in the United States.

Eight-year-old Mifflin Gibbs was sent to work, driving a doctor's horse at first and eventually becoming a carpenter's apprentice.

Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century (Annotated).

Title: Shadow and Light.

Shadow and light: an autobiography with reminiscences of the last and present century [Washington, Booker T., Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar] on

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(Extra)ORDINARY MEN: African-American Lawyers and Civil Rights in Arkansas Before 1950 Judith Kilpatrick* “The remarkable thing is not that black men attempted to regain their stolen civic rights, but that they tried over and over again, using a wide va- riety of techniques.”1 I.

INTRODUCTION Arkansas has a tradition, beginning in 1865, of African- American attorneys who were active in civil rights. During the eighty years following the Emancipation Proclamation, at least sixty-nine African-American men were admitted to practice law in the state.2 They were all men of their times, frequently hold- * Associate Professor, University of Arkansas School of Law; J.S.D.

1999, LL.M. 1992, Columbia University, J.D. 1975, B.A. 1972, University of California-Berkeley. The author would like to thank the following: the historians whose work is cited here; em- ployees of The Arkansas History Commission, The Butler Center of the Little Rock Public Library, the Pine Bluff