 For the first time, it united the county on a permanent basis.African Americans in Pine Bluff were damaged by the state's disfranchisement in 1891–1892 and exclusion from the political system.But they continued to work for their rights; they joined activists in Little Rock and Hot Springs in a sustained boycott of streetcars, protesting passage in 1903 of the Segregated Streetcar Act, part of a series of Jim Crow laws passed by the white-dominated legislature.