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After working for weeks to get evidence “that would warrant us in making descent on places where ‘big games’ are played,” a slew of black gambling houses are shut down and those inside are sent to jail.

Winfield Cozart and his wife file a complaint against the Southern Railway Company for discrimination and being forced to ride in a “Jim Crow car.”

In response to the mob outbreaks and Springfield race riots, a group of black citizens fight back “like Turks.”

The yard-conductor at Byrd Street Station allegedly stole multiple pairs of shoes. The Planet compares his punishments for stealing with that of a black man.

The Planet condemns the unreasonable and vicious killing of black people, declaring that nowadays “human life is too cheap and the violation of fundamental laws too common.”

A black man is charged with assaulting a woman and arrested. A mob attacks the jail but is threatened by a sheriff and 12 deputies who fail to save the man from being lynched.

Charged with stealing, “a colored giant” is sent to the Henrico County jail, though there was a lack of strong evidence proving his guilt.

The Virginia Supreme Court’s decision on the People’s Pleasure Park Company trial “makes a citizen feel, whatever his race or color may be that he can get justice in this commonwealth,” and allows for black people to own and operate businesses.

When playing with friends, a 12 year old boy gets stuck in a mountain-top tunnel and confidently directs a fireman on how to properly rescue him.

A quarrel between Chester Reighard and policeman R.J. Werner of Altoona, Pennsylvania, leads to a fight and unexpected death.