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Milton Wayman Guy was admitted to practice by the state supreme court on June 11, 1915, and was listed in the 1915 Little Rock (Pulaski County) City Directory as practicing with Scipio Jones and John Gaines. After one year, Guy resumed a solo practice until 1934. He was a founding member of the first Arkansas branch of the NAACP in Little Rock in 1918. Nothing else is known about him.

Sources: Judith Kilpatrick, “(EXTRA)Ordinary Men: African-American Lawyers and Civil Rights in Arkansas Before 1950,” 53 Ark. Law Rev. 299, 348 n354, 372, 373 n554 (2000); Arkansas Supreme Court Admission Records; 1915 Little Rock City Directory; Papers of the NAACP, Part 12, Reel 4, pp. 785-86 (Application of Charter for the NAACP, Little Rock, July 4, 1918);

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