To Test Jim Crow Law
December 17, 1904
Summary
Mr. Jones, a jersey Preacher intends to test the “Jim Crow” laws by “riding cars provided for white people exclusively.”
Transcription
Jersey Preacher- Going South to Make Fight.
Elizabeth, J, Dec 12.-Rev. Taylor Jones has started on a trip with the purpose of making a test of the “Jim Crow” laws of the southern states. It is said that he is backed by a number of colored organizations of New York and New Jersey, and that he will be gone for several weeks.
Mr. Jones will first present a protest to the authorities of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and if no attention is paid to the protest Mr. Jones will, it is said, riding cars provided for white people exclusively. If ejected he will take the case to the highest courts on the ground of the unconstitutionality of the laws.
Elizabeth, J, Dec 12.-Rev. Taylor Jones has started on a trip with the purpose of making a test of the “Jim Crow” laws of the southern states. It is said that he is backed by a number of colored organizations of New York and New Jersey, and that he will be gone for several weeks.
Mr. Jones will first present a protest to the authorities of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and if no attention is paid to the protest Mr. Jones will, it is said, riding cars provided for white people exclusively. If ejected he will take the case to the highest courts on the ground of the unconstitutionality of the laws.
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“To Test Jim Crow Law,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed October 9, 2026, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/782.