Talk:Scipio Africanus Jones
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Education section states:
"Jones worked as a school teacher in Big Rock District Two from 1885 until 1887 before applying to law school...After being denied admittance to the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law due to his race."
First, the UALR law school was founded until 1975, and the law school in Fayetteville was established until 1924. Once source Ovington's Portraits of Color (1927) makes the claim that he was denied entry into a law school (usually people assume this is Fayetteville's not Little Rock's), but one University law professor conceded to me that Fayetteville's school didn't exist in 1887. So, that "detail" seems doubtful. -- See the three published histories of the University of Arkansas for law school timelines...
U.S. News & World Report says 1928 as the date UA founded its Law School. See http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/directory/dir-law/brief/glanc_03005_brief.php --Bwintor 22:30, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
