"Today Jim Crowism obtains to some degree in every one of the Southern states. Separate sections in trolley cars and special coaches on trains are provided which Negroes must ride" - and this is the portion of the racist practice that Congressman Arthur W. Mitchell attempted to improve - knowing that the possibility of eradicating the scourge was not a possibility in 1937.
Pictured above is Arthur Wergs Mitchell (1883 – 1968), who served as the U.S. Representative for the 1st District of Illinois between the years 1935 through 1943.
