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When 220 saloons shut down in Atlantic City, the residents experience “a real blue Sunday,” as it was the fourth time in over forty years that there was a drinkless day.

The Rate Bill’s effect is summarized, highlighting the impact on interstate commerce.

President Roosevelt sends a letter to the Department of Justice directing that railroads provide equal accommodations for white and black passengers.

A speech fights for equality under the law claiming that “oppression had never righted a wrong or solved a problem.”

John Waller, the American Consul to Madagascar, is illegally arrested by the French government and horribly mistreated. Because he is black, the US government took ten months before demanding a pardon for him.

African Americans characterize  the “Negro-hating” Democratic party as satanic.

The Planet publishes Washington’s farewell address in which he encourages the American people to “inspire caution” in the government in order to keep it fair and free.

An "amendment to the naval bill" is passed allowing for half of the Navy to be placed in the Pacific Coast.

A union in Nashville organizes a transportation system that defies the Jim Crow streetcar laws.

John Mitchell, Jr., observes that “not in all its eventful history has Richmond witnessed a more imposing demonstration than that which marked the funeral of General Fitzhugh Lee.”