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Joseph Atkins was admitted to practice before the state supreme court on July 8, 1935. At that time, he was living in Camden (Ouachita County), Arkansas. In 1938, he was listed as a member of the Wonder State Bar Association, a Black lawyers group. He was born April 12, 1904, location unknown, and his last known residence was in Camden, Arkansas, in January 1971. Nothing more 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, 381 n630, 388, 394 (2000); e-mail from Stephen, dtd 2/14/2009, citing http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com and http://vitals.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ca/death/search.cgi ; Arkansas State Supreme Court Admissions Records.