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  • Topic is exactly "Government and Politics"

April 6, 1895

A Virginia governor invites a delegation of the Massachusetts legislature to his mansion, but upon arrival excludes the only black representative.

July 28, 1894

The Wilson Tariff Bill, which is highly opposed by Northern manufacturers, passes the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, but seems to be dead on arrival in the Senate.

August 22, 1908

When James. R. Sherman is given the Republican nomination for vice president, the people of Utica, N.Y. host elaborate ceremonies and parades, exclaiming that “the affair is a grand holiday in honor of Mr. Sherman.”

August 25, 1900

In West Virginia, railway conductors are implementing Virginia’s “separate car law” forcing black people into coaches made “exclusively for the accommodation of colored people.”

August 10, 1901

John Mitchell Jr. assures concerning the actions of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia “we have never seen the need of any particular uneasiness on the part of our people relative to the cutting off our right to vote. That right is already…

April 21, 1894

The Planet critiques a court case, where a white politician broke the promise of marriage to a white woman, charging that whites always claim moral high ground even though they commit murder and adultery like everyone else.

June 2, 1894

The elections in Jackson Ward lead to a sweeping victory for the Republican party.

March 13, 1897

The Planet discusses the politics of black judges being removed along with inequalities in the courtroom.

August 27, 1898

The United States annexed the Republic of Hawaii, but the Planet along with many others do not agree with the government's methods.

October 14, 1899

Mitchell commends President McKinley for his visit to a black church in Chicago, and calls it an appreciated “official acknowledgement of the worth of the colored race.”
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