Hodges v. United States is a 1906 U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned the convictions of three white men who were convicted in 1903 of conspiring to prevent a group of Black workers from holding jobs in a northeast Arkansas lumber mill.
I’m taping an episode of my Southern Fried Podcast with Judge Raymond Abramson of the Arkansas Court of Appeals when the subject of Delta Jews comes up. Abramson, who hails from Holly Grove, is among the last of the Delta Jewish lawyers. It’s a group that once included well-known attorneys such as David Solomon of Helena, Oscar Fendler of Blytheville, Kent Rubens of West Memphis and Eddie Grauman of Helena.