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A traveling black man is harassed and shot by a group of “white youngsters.”

An unfair trial leads to a black man being persecuted while a white man of equal guilt remains free.

The Planet argues that the court did not rule fairly in the trial and conviction of a black man after he requested money that was rightfully his.

The Jim Crow Car Law, which divides train cars by race, is declared unconstitutional and the case will be taken to Supreme Court.

Five election officials are put in the Henrico County jail for stuffing the ballot box.

The Supreme Court of Appeals in Virginia reverses its opinion declaring that the constitution must be amended to convict a citizen of petit larceny.

A white man rapes a young black girl, but suffers no punishment because of his wealth.

A black man is beaten and nearly hanged to death by a group of whites for allegedly stealing a log chain.

A ten year-old black girl who was brutally raped by a white man in Danville, Virginia, disappears before the trial; the man is acquitted because no witnesses were present.

A black man, who brutally murders a white woman, is captured in Savannah and, while returning to South Carolina, is taken by an angry white mob and lynched.