2 10 300 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Alan Banuchi Summary A boxing match between the current heavyweight champion against a “negro” boxer, who clearly dominates the fight against the white fighter. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19090102&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated 4 Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Sydney, N.S.W., Dec. 26 – Jack Johnson, the American Negro won the heavyweight championship of the world here this morning in the 14th round he had Tommy burns of Canada, the title holder in such a condition that the police ordered the fight stopped whereupon referee Hugh D McIntosh awarded his decision to Johnson amid a wild scene. Johnson outclassed Burns in practically every respect. He was faster in attack and defense delivered the more accurate and powerful blows, and gradually why the white man down. Burns was the aggressor at the outset and indulged in harsh rushing, the idea being to land a knockout blow in a rough mix up. The Negro was so shifty on his feet that it was difficult matter for Burns to reach a vital spot. So that he soon discovered that he was up against in most puzzling proposition. Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context May - 1909 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909-01-02 Title A name given to the resource A Southern Negro Is Heavy Weight Champion Of The World Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Liam Eynan Summary The writer argues against the train car segregation bill. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18960229.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The Separate Car bill which a prejudiced legislator, Gen. Hundley, has offered deserves the silence which seems to be accorded it, and we hope it will be allowed to slumber and sleep until the session has ended. These periodic attempts to stir up racial prejudice a reprehensible, and are made by men who should know better, but are simply acting in accordance with the wished of the lower strata of the whites, who know nothing of economic principles and governmental law. Caste distinctions injure the communities practicing them and cause capital to hesitate and make short duration of its location there. Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context F29.docx Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1896-02-29 Title A name given to the resource The Separate Car Bill Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Liam Eynan Summary A letter to the editor mocks the proposed segregated train car bill. Item Type Letter to the Editor Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18960222.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Editor of the Planet: The presence in the Virginia Legislature of a man like Mr. Radford, the author of the "Separate Car" bill is another evidence that "one has not always to be wise or good to be preferred." Mr. Radford doubtless esteems himself a very proper law-maker and "one of the Negroes' best friends." Now, we are very much opposed to “class-legislation" and to that peculiar "friendship" which is constant seeking to humiliate us. The Negro has no desire to "intrude" himself upon the white man, but if an insistence upon an equality of civil privileges is intrusion, we shall continue to "intrude," separate cars or no separate cars. The self-respecting Negroes (and there are thousands of them in Virginia) are as much offended by the bad conduct of low people, white and black, on common carriers as are se respecting white people, but they cannot see that one coach for all colored people and another coach for all white people will bring a riddance of the nuisance to either party. Let us rather have one car for well behaved people and another those who will not behave themselves. Colored people will give their approval to, and grow patriotic under any measure that provides for protection of all people, but they are eternally at war against any legislation which carries with it the idea that all colored people are bad and white people are good. Yours for justice and statesmanship, F. D. Banks. Hampton, VA, Feb. 17,1896. Location Lower Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context F22.docx Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1896-02-22 Title A name given to the resource The Separate Car Bill Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Elias Sturim Summary Booker T. Washington declares the deprivation of constitutional privileges for black southerners may be due in part to the "advisability of the settlement of the [black man] in Northern States." Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18991125&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Prof. Booker T. Washington contributes a very able and practical article to the ATLANTIC MONTHLY of Boston, Mass., for November. He discusses “The Case of the Negro.” We have no hesitation in saying that this is one of the best productions he has as yet given to the public and it shows that he has come to a full appreciation of the true condition existing outside of the institution of which he is distinguished head. He does not believe that the removal of the Negroes from this country will settle the question, because he does not believe they can be removed. He questions the advisability of the settlement of the Negro in Northern States, believing that he is at his best in the Southern states. Prof. WASHINGTON is standing on a bed-rock principle at last when he announces: “I would not have the Negro deprived of any privilege granted to him by the Constitution of the United States. It is not best for the Negro that he relinquish any of his constitutional rights; it is not best for the Southern white man that he should.” Prof. WASHINGTON now sees that the talk of disfranchising of the Negro as a “cure for all ills” is a visionary proposition, contrary to every principle of right and reason. He is severe in dealing with the Negro extremists of the North, alleging that they are more liable to aggravate the situation than to alleviate the existing conditions. Location Lower Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context The Case of the Negro” Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1899-11-25 Title A name given to the resource The Case of the Negro” Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Elias Sturim Summary A white woman writes to tell how the most horrid part of the slave trade was the transportation, and says, "never can so much misery be found." Item Type Letter to the Editor Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18991125&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound She Tells of the Horrors of the Slave Trade. A Touching Plea A Race’s Brutality- Horrible Cruelty- God’s Wrath and the Future. Editor Planet: As I looked over your paper this morning I was particularly interested in the letter of Mrs E. V. Harrod. My eyes filled with tears as I read it for my heart was filled with sorrow and shame for what my race has done and is still doing to oppress and degrade a harmless race, a race that never did us harm. Yes, Mr. Editor, “the time has come for an honest statement of facts from the Negro’s side of the question.” Let us look at some of the facts. Moet gladly would I draw a veil over the past while I hide my face in shame, but I dare not. Historical writers tell us that forty millions of the inhabitants of Africa have been torn from their native land and made slaves on American soil. They also tell us that these forty millions which remained alive and were sold into slavery were but three-tenths of the original number seized or destroyed. The seven-tenths perished. NOTHING MORE HORRIBLE The mind can hardly conceive of anything more horrible than the means used to capture the Negroes to supply the slave trade. Property was taken, men, women and children were butched, towns destroyed, and every species of violence resorted to for the attainment of the object. In one instance twenty thousand were killed for sixteen thousand carried away. Sometimes as many as sixty thousand were killed in one “skirmish” for slaves. One well informed writer tells of a whole tribe of agricultural trading people of most inoffensive character having been annihilated in a single night. “Every adult was murdered, every hut fired, the boys and girls alone being reserved for the slave trader. He says, “Similar events took place perhaps every month in the year.” Many slaves perished on their way to the coast. They were heavily ironed- the irons something wearing to the bone, causing sores which never healed. “The females were almost universally the victims of the drivers.” Sometimes half of the number of slaves perished before reaching the coast. On their arrival all those unfit for shipping were killed or turned loose to perish from hunger. The Most Wretched Part Mr. Wilberforce said in the House of Commons, “The transportation of slaves is the most wretched part of the business. Never can so much misery be found in so small a space as in a slave-ship during the middle passage.” Commander Andrew H. Foote of the U.S. Navy said in his book entitled ‘Africa and the American Flag.’ “If ever there were anything on earth which for revolting, filthy, heartless cruelty might make the devil wonder and hell recognize its okay likeness then it was on the decks of an old slaver.” He represented the scene as one of “unparalleled wretchedness.” In 1807 Congress passed a law prohibiting the fitting out of any vessel for the slave trade and forbid the importation of any slaves. The slave traffic continued and in 1820 Congress declared that every person found guilty should suffer death. Not until Lincoln came into power was the law carried out, and, despite all protestations against it, a slave trader was hung in the Tombs in New York. Until then our government permitted slave trading vessels to be secretly fitted out in our ports and to carry our flag and then by prohibiting other nations interfering with them, really protracted the traffic so that some of our citizens engaged in it with greater eagerness than before, and furnished slave ships for other countries as well as our own. Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context A White Lady Writes Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1899-11-25 Title A name given to the resource A White Lady Writes Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Elias Sturim Summary Mitchell provides a social commentary on the effects of the "habitual and hopeless drunkard" on the community. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18991118&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The regular, well-established drunkard should consider, it would seem, in some of his lucid intervals, that he is about the most troublesome individual at present making straggling and irregular tracks on the surface of the earth. By the word drunkard is understood the variety to which the word habitual is prefixed. There are other varieties of drunkard, or rather drinker- as the moderate, the occasional, the spasmodic- but the drunkard about which the world is concerned is the regular, or the sot. Compared with him inebriates of a less degree inspire but a languid and intermittent interest. The habitual and hopeless drunkard is the sort upon whom the mass of his fellow-citizens bestow their time and money. It is for him that all the “cures” are opened and all the asylums are provided. To him all the thrilling appeals to reform are made. What to do with the drunkard is the main question, and has been something over half a century. Location Lower Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Lot of the Drunkard Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1899-11-18 Title A name given to the resource Lot of the Drunkard Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Elias Sturim Summary A reverend theorizes that recent increases to the army's presence in the Philippines will "likely prolong the struggle.” Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18991111&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Rev. Peter MacQueen, who has just returned from the Philippines contributes a most interesting article to Leslie’s Weekly, issue of November 4, 1899. He speaks of the large force now being mobilized by the United States’ government and takes as his subject, “Will this end the war?” He says: “Sixty- five thousand men and forty battleships are being mobilized for our conquest of the Philippines. Many of our people believe that this will end the war; and everybody in America should sincerely hope it will. Under certain circumstances it would be a foregone conclusion that with such a force against the little army of Aguinaldo the result would be swift and sure. We are all anxious to see this sad, mad insurrection cease. There are, however, various elements in the Filipino war that we must count upon as being likely to prolong the struggle.” Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Will this End the War?” Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1899-11-11 Title A name given to the resource Will this End the War?” Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Elias Sturim Summary Mitchell speaks of President McKinley's visit to Richmond, and commends him for visiting even when "he has nothing to gain by visiting Virginia." Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18991104&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound President McKinley’s visit to Richmond to-morrow, to witness the launching of the Shubrick, the first government vessel ever built in that city, will show that he has no political object in view in mixing with his fellow citizens, as it must be plain to even his most narrow-minded critics that he has nothing to gain by visiting Virginia. There is reason to believe that the Philippine Commission, which met in Washington to-day, will prepare a preliminary report at once, covering its investigation from the opening of hostilities by Aguinaldo and existing conditions on the islands, leaving the future to be handled in a later and fuller report, which may take the civilian members of the Commission back to the islands after peace is restored. Location Upper Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Much Activity at the National Capital Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1899-11-04 Title A name given to the resource Much Activity at the National Capital Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Elias Sturim Summary Mitchell speaks of the how Americans tend to exaggerate events to get a "foreigner get muddled up in ideas concerning the United States." Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18991104&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The average American citizen fakes a keen delight in helping a foreigner get muddled up in ideas concerning the United States. Returning to this country on a steamer recently an American found himself besieged by a young Englishman, who was determined to find out as much as possible about the new world before the steamer landed. He had been warned to keep a sharp outlook for hostile Indians, who sneaked about the streets looking for a chance to pounce upon and kill unsuspecting foreigners, and then make their escape by running around the corner and posing quietly before a cigar store until the crowd rushed on. He then asked about crocodiles, and if they could be found in large numbers. The unsophisticated Britisher was solemnly assured that they were not so numerous in the Hudson river as they were some time ago and that the most of them are found at the Niagara falls, where the water falls 175 feet. It is a very interesting sight, he was told, to stand on the high rocks above and watch the powerful animals swim up over the falls. Location Upper Left Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context An American Liar Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1899-11-04 Title A name given to the resource An American Liar Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Student Name Elias Sturim Summary Mitchell writes of the "one disappointing feature" of a fair, where no shops operated by black men are present. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18991104&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound There was only one disappointing feature: no where did their appear an exhibit from a colored-shop owned controlled and operated by colored men. It was an object lesson which every thoughtful citizen of color will do well to consider. The tournament took place at the Exposition Grounds Wednesday afternoon and the display of fireworks at the Lee Monument on Thursday Night. The public schools were closed Tuesday and Wednesday. Location Lower Right Quadrant Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Not Represented Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <i>Richmond Planet</i> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1899-11-04 Title A name given to the resource Not Represented