Julian Talbot Bailey (born March 22, 1859 – unknown) was an African-American lawyer, educator, journalist, newspaper editor, publisher, and civil rights advocate in Arkansas.
Bailey was born in Warren County, Georgia. He graduated from Howard University and became a teacher. He served as president of Bethel University from 1886 to 1887.
In 1891, he was admitted to the bar and established The Sun newspaper in Little Rock.
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.
References
- "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Pulaski, Jefferson, Lonoke, Faulkner, Grant, Saline, Perry, Garland and Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas: Comprising a Condensed History of the State... Biographies of Distinguished Citizens...[etc.]". Goodspeed publishing Company. April 22, 1889 – via Google Books.
- "Julian Talbot Bailey - Arkansas Black Lawyers". arkansasblacklawyers.uark.edu.
- "Bailey". afrotexan.com.
- "Ayer Directory of Publications". Ayer Press. June 28, 1885 – via Google Books.
- Penn, Irvine Garland (January 10, 1891). The Afro-American Press and Its Editors. Willey & Company. ISBN 9780598582683 – via Google Books.
- "Julian Talbot: Lawyer and Strong Proponent of Civil Rights for African Americans". July 21, 2020.
- Smith, J. Clay Jr. (June 28, 1999). Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812216857 – via Google Books.
- "Prof. Julian Talbot Bailey". NYPL Digital Collections.
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