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March 7, 1906

Jim Crow” streetcars are brought to Washington by Representative Hefin in hopes to further segregate the races.

August 21, 1897

A black woman graduated from Vassar College in New York after keeping her race a secret.

February 2, 1901

The Planet tackles the Times’ changing opinion of African Americans alive and post-mortem.

November 18, 1905

A diphtheria disease outbreak infects two families, causing the Board of Health to quarantine them.

June 4, 1904

Members of the community thought “the [street] cars are being run for white people only” due to increase of colored people walking.

January 9, 1904

The Planet details injustices inflicted on black passengers on the local streetcars.

July 27, 1907

Blacks in Washington want to “fight Jim-Crow discrimination from the bottom up, starting at jails and workhouses”.

February 25, 1905

A doctor claims that using tobacco worsens hearing and “cautions moderation in the use of the drug.”

December 17, 1904

Mr. Jones, a jersey Preacher intends to test the “Jim Crow” laws by “riding cars provided for white people exclusively.”

May 8, 1909

Thousands of people in Asiatic Turkey are massacred due to the stage of siege, and warships now on their coasts as well.
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