The Black Dispatch (Oklahoma City, Okla.), 13 June 1935.

Of course, I went looking to find out what the Daily Times had to say about this.

Not a whole lot. On page 4 of the 4 June 1935 edition, halfway down a column headlined “Salary Increases Given to County Employees Today”:

Wilson Daily Times, 4 June 1935.

The lead case challenging the systematic exclusion of African-Americans from juries was Norris v. Alabama, 294 U.S. 587 (1935). Wilson County Attorney Harry G. Connor Jr.’s advice was terse and understated: “… it would be wise and safe[,] I might say wiser and safer, to put the names of several hundred negroes in the jury list. In doing this, care should be taken to get the best negroes in the county and not only that, I think it would be equally wise and safe to distribute them by townships as nearly as possible.”

The question, of course, is whether any of these “best negroes” made it onto juries.