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March 14, 1906

President Roosevelt attempted to receive aid from the Democratic party and was “undoubtedly a source of embarrassment” because of the transparent attempt to lead both parties.

June 15, 1907

The suspicion of Japan’s new alliances in the Pacific introduces an element of rising tension between the US and Japan.

February 29, 1908

A black soldier in need of help during the middle of the night gets in trouble for waking up one of the white doctors.

August 3, 1907

The Planet gives an overview of Foraker’s “uphill battle of a campaign” that he will be running in Ohio for Senator, while he is a Republican in a successful Democrat led time.

January 13, 1906

Attorneys and black community members protest the Jim Crow streetcar laws. The Planet urges the boycott: “Every time you want to ride on a street car put five cents in a bank and at the close of the year, count the fund and see how happy you will…

March 17, 1900

The “unconstitutional ‘Constitutional’ Convention” strikes “the white Democratic office-holders squarely in the face” by endangering “the position of every county and city official in the state.”

February 15, 1908

Governor Hughes sends the senate an urgent message requesting the removal of Otto Kelsey from office.

July 21, 1900

The Virginia legislature works to hurt black men and “the class of white men who are counted in from localities having black populations.”

December 8, 1906

At a conference in Chicago, Senator Tillman’s response to the equal suffrage law leaves him a “sorry spectacle for the civilized world.” He says: “The law? To hell with such law.”

October 8, 1904

The supreme court grants a new trial to “Robert Bowles, colored, who shot and killed John Ruff, a white fireman” after evidence is arising that “Ruff was in fault and it seems to have been a clear case of self-defense.”
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