Julian T. Bailey

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Julian Talbot Bailey (born March 22, 1859) was an African-American lawyer, educator, journalist, newspaper editor, publisher, and civil rights advocate in Arkansas. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Bailey was born in Warren County, Georgia. [5] He graduated from Howard University and became a teacher. He served as president of Bethel University from 1886 to 1887. [6]

In 1891, he was admitted to the bar and established The Sun newspaper in Little Rock. [7]

He was quoted as saying, "Since the negro and the southern white man were reared together, by voting alike I thought the objectionable race prejudice would readily come to a close. We are all here and what is one's interest is the others."

An engraving was made of him that is held in the collection of the New York Public Library. [8]

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