Julian T. Bailey

{{Short description|American lawyer, professor, and publisher}}

Julian Talbot Bailey (born March 22, 1859 – unknown) was an African-American lawyer, educator, journalist, newspaper editor, publisher, and civil rights advocate in Arkansas.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F-wxAQAAMAAJ&q=Julian+talbot+bailey|title=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.]|date=April 22, 1889|publisher=Goodspeed publishing Company|via=Google Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://arkansasblacklawyers.uark.edu/lawyers/bailey.html|title=Julian Talbot Bailey - Arkansas Black Lawyers|website=arkansasblacklawyers.uark.edu}}{{Cite web|url=http://afrotexan.com/AfroPress/Editors/bailey.htm|title=Bailey|website=afrotexan.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xkVxzzsMpI4C&q=e.a.+fulton+the+sun+little+rock+arkansas&pg=PA760|title=Ayer Directory of Publications|date=June 28, 1885|publisher=Ayer Press|via=Google Books}}

Bailey was born in Warren County, Georgia.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y80OAAAAIAAJ&dq=julian+talbot+bailey&pg=PA240|title=The Afro-American Press and Its Editors|first=Irvine Garland|last=Penn|date=January 10, 1891|publisher=Willey & Company|isbn=9780598582683 |via=Google Books}} He graduated from Howard University and became a teacher. He served as president of Bethel University from 1886 to 1887.{{Cite web|url=https://blackthen.com/julian-talbot-lawyer-strong-proponent-civil-rights-african-americans/blackthen.com/julian-talbot-lawyer-strong-proponent-civil-rights-african-americans/|title=Julian Talbot: Lawyer and Strong Proponent of Civil Rights for African Americans|date=July 21, 2020}}

In 1891, he was admitted to the bar and established The Sun newspaper in Little Rock.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1lOIjQUG4aoC&q=julian+talbot+bailey+little+rock&pg=PA327|title=Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944|first=J. Clay Jr.|last=Smith|date=June 28, 1999|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=0812216857|via=Google Books}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-e995-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99|title=Prof. Julian Talbot Bailey.|website=NYPL Digital Collections}}