1 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 Brooke Royer Summary The Committee on Roads of the legislature of Virginia reviews a new bill for segregated streetcars. Most whites oppose the bill, especially the conductors who must enforce it. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19020301&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The Committee on Roads of the legislature of Virginia now has under consideration a bill offered by a Mr. Caton of Alexandria providing for “Jim Crow” street cars in this state. The measure has aroused the entire street-car interests of the commonwealth and every surface line is represented. The motormen and conductors have forwarded long petitions against the measure, and the strongest possible language in condemnation of the proposition has been used. The committee has visited the street car barns in this city, and the impracticability of the measure demonstrated. As strange as it may seem, the colored people have treated the measure with utter indifference and those who are most pronounced against it are the white people, noticeable so, the conductors, to whom will be entrusted the duty of its enforcement. The present indications are that the bill will be “put to sleep” and the vote against it overwhelming. 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 19020301-The "Jim Crow" Street Car Proposition-Royer 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 1902-03-01 Title A name given to the resource The "Jim Crow" Street Car Proposition https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/files/original/e6b1d995d298c3b9a0c970b334b55dd6.png 39166cb51144a1204ae8a88b3ae04efa 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 Emma Roberts Summary An advertisement in the Planet shows that beer helps to overcome “shades of crime, disease, and poverty.” Item Type Advertisement Image Yes URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19061020&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound “Beer is a Food and Temperance Drink” Extract from liquor advertisement Shades of crime, Disease and Poverty (enthusiastically): Beer is our food; without it we could hardly exist.” Maudlin Voice (from table): “An temperance drink, too.” 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 19061020-“Beer is a Food and Temperance Drink” -EmmaRoberts 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 1906-10-20 Title A name given to the resource "Beer is a Food and Temperance Drink” 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 highlights of Booker T. Washington’s famous “Democracy and Education” speech are transcribed. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18961205.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Prof. Booker T Washington lectured before Twentieth Century Club of Boston, Nov. 25th and during his remarkable address on "Democracy and Education” gave voice to expressions, which will give him rank among the foremost economic thinker of his day. Among other things, he said: “The central idea which I wish you to help me consider this evening is the reaching and lifting up of the lowest, most unfortunate, negative element that occupies so larges proportion of our territory and composes so large a percentage of our population. It seems to me that there never was a time in the history of our country when those interested in education should more earnestly consider to what extent the mere acquiring of the ability to read and write, of a knowledge of literature and science, makes men producers, lovers of labor, independent, honest, unselfish and, above all, supreme good. Call education by what name you please, and if it fails to bring about these results among the masses, it falls short of its highest end. The science, the art, the literature, that fails to reach down and bring the humblest up to the enjoyment of the fullest blessings of our government is weak, no matter how costly the buildings or apparatus used, or how modern the methods of instruction employed.” Who can truthfully gain-say or deny those assertions? And again: "I know that wherever our life touches yours, we help or we hinder; that wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker. I know that with all the conflicting opinions and with a full knowledge of all our weaknesses, only a few centuries ago we went into slavery in this country pagans, we came out Christians; we went into slavery a piece of property, we came out American citizens; we went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists, we came out with the American ballot in our hands. My friends, I submit it to your candid and sober judgement if a race that is capable of such a test, such a transformation, is not worth saving and making a part in reality, as well as in name, of our democratic government.” The above are truisms. He said: "Few, I fear, realize what is to be done before the 7,000,000 of my people in the South can be made a safe, helpful, progressive part of our institutions The South, in proportion to its ability, has done well, but this does not change facts. In spite of all that has been done, in one county in Alabama, that contains 30,000 colored people and about 7,000 whites, not a single public school for Negroes has been opened this year longer than three months, not a single colored teacher has been paid more than $15 a month for teaching. In this county, the state or public authorities do not own a single dollar's worth of school property. Each colored child has had spent on him this year for his education about 50 cents while each one of your children has had spent on him about $20 And yet each citizen of that county is expected to share the burdens and privileges of our democratic form of government equally with the people of Boston. Did you know that a single schoolhouse built this year in a town near Boston to shelter 300 students has cost more for building alone than will be spent this year for the education of the whole colored school population of Alabama?” No stronger comparison could have been made; no greater contrast presented. But he makes a powerful plea for the poor whites of the South. The following was bound to have telling effect upon those who listened to his argument: "The educators, the statesmen, the philanthropists, have never comprehended their duty towards the millions of poor whites in the South who were buffeted for 200 years between slaver and freedom, between, civilization and degradation, who were disregarded b both master and slav. It needs no prophet to tell the character of our future civilization when the poor white boy in the country districts of the South receives $1 worth of education and your boy $20 worth; when one never enters a reading room or library and the other has reading rooms and libraries in every ward or town; when one hears lectures and sermons once in two months, and the other can have a lecture or a sermon almost every day in the year.” He concluded as follows: "When you help the South you help yourselves. Abuse will not bring the remedy. The time has come, it seems to me when in this matter we should rise above party or race or sectionalism into the region duty of men to man, citizen to citizen, Christian to Christian. And if the negro, who has been oppressed and denied rights in a Christian land, can help the North and South to rise, can be the medium of your rising into this atmosphere of Christian Brotherhood and self-forgetfulness, he will see in it a recompenses for all that he has suffered in the past.” Is there a man of us who would take issue with Prof. Washington upon this point? Are not all his utterances made in the same spirit as were those which thrilled Wendell Phillips and caused William Lloyd Garrison brave the fury of the mobs in enunciated the hoary doctrine of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Prof. Washington may be misunderstood and misrepresented now; but if success attends his efforts and his hopes for the future realized generations as yet unborn will accord him that praise which many now refuse to tender. Race interests are paramount with us, and in this distinguished son we see the hope of the dawn of a brighter day. 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 Nov.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 1896-12-05 Title A name given to the resource "Democracy and Education" 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 Megan Brooks Summary A black woman from New York draws a “knife and made a long Johnson-street razzoo swipe” at the conductor after he demands she sit in the back according to Jim Crow laws. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19040604&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound New York Negroes Objected to Color Line in Richmond Street Cars-Tried to Kill the Conductor-Declined to sit in Rear, Cried “To Hell With Jim Crow,” and cursed Him Long and Loud. “Miss” Coles, of New York visiting colored friend in Richmond bumped suddenly into the Jim Crow car law on a main Street trolley yesterday. The bump was so hard that she lingers in the police court cage today awaiting the arrival of her friends with $20 in cash to redeem her person from hoc. The visitor took a front seat, and the conductor told her as she sat comfortably clad in her diaphanous white silk wait that she would be compelled to back ups. In the unmistakable twang of the Northern she demanded the reason. “We have a Jim Crow law” said the conductor. “To hell with the Jim Crow car,” said the passenger. The conductor did his best to move her, but received only long and bitter curses for his efforts. On the back platform she drew a knife and made a long Johnson-street razzoo swipe at his stomach. He dodged in time. On the street the insulted colored female from New York made the air break into blue bubbled from the multitude of her oaths. Police sergeant Kerse arrested her and had her by the neck until she dropped the knife. “I like little old New York,” said Crutchfield, who had never seen the town up to two years ago,” “But they certainly don’t look after their little niggers in the right way. If the had raised this one properly, she’d be in twenty dollars.” Further comment is unnecessary, but it emphasizes the fact that those of the colored people who wish to keep trouble should walk and permit the company to have the entire possession of its street cars. Walking is good now. Stay off the street cars. 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 Made Furious By Jim Crow” 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 1904-06-04 Title A name given to the resource "Made Furious By Jim Crow” 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 Brooke Royer Summary Mitchell positively remarks how black people have transitioned to owning former white slavemasters’ property and successful businesses. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19020118&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound The old plantations in many instances have passed into the hands of the former slaves. Fine teams with ebony colored drivers and black mistresses may be seen upon the roadways. Beautiful daughters of the despised race have returned from northern colleges, while those in the South established by Yankee beneficence have turned out trained colored gentlemen and accomplished colored ladies. There are tens of thousands of homes from which you can hear floating out upon the evening air, the choicest selections from Wagner or Mendelsohn. The denial to him of the use of the political ballot has led him to reach out for the dollar ballot and it counts at the financial polls of the nation every time. 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 19020118-A Beautiful Picture-Royer 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 1902-01-18 Title A name given to the resource A Beautiful Picture 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 Brian Schrott Summary A Canadian Minister from Montreal writes to John Mitchell Jr. complementing him on how he bravely champions “the rights of the black race.” Item Type Letter to the Editor Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18971106.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Montreal Prov. of Canada. To the Editor of the Richmond Planet: – Dear Sir: –A copy of your very ably edited paper was handed to me this morning and I upon reading it became much inflated with the brave and undaunted manner in which you champion the rights of the black race. It is true that in the main the race is not wise, but for that they are not to blame and the laws of the country should not be abrogated in regard to their crimes. They should have fair and impartial trials and this method would be an educating influence to them, but lynching only teaches murder upon murder and wrong upon wrong. It is a very heart rending thing to read in your paper the number of lynchings in the very face of the law. I call it a brutal murder, and if a just conclusion is arrived at, it is murder in the first degree, and I do hope and pray to see a day come in which the United States government will pass laws to bring these heartless abusers of the law to the end of the rope as a fair trial of the courts of proper judicature will dictate. The influence of those outrages in the states of the Union are a dangerous element to the progress of the colored race in Canada. We have to be men of power and discretion to keep down feelings which we see at times giving consent to those happenings and give no ground as cowards and in this way, we hold our own. It is true that the “British” Lion is very severe upon wrong doing and in the language of Lord Nelson, “England expects every man will do his duty.” I am supporting the freeman, the Journal of the Lodge, and the Recorder and would that I could support more, but I am a poor Elder in itinerary of the British Methodist Episcopal Church, and have no way of support only by the charity of the people in public collections. Respectfully yours, Rev. R. L. Holden, Albert St., No. 26, Montreal City, Oct. 15, 1897. 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 18971106-A Canadian Minister 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 1897-11-06 Title A name given to the resource A Canadian Minister 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 Emma Roberts Summary The Planet encourages every black person to hear Archbishop Justus J. Evans speak “for the purpose of delivering the helpless from evil.” Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19061110&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound A Chance for the Colored People to Arise in all Parts of America Archbishop Justus J. Evans, D. G., who is now forming and creating a pure, Godly Syndicate out of true members of the Negro race for the purpose fo delivering the helpless from evil will address the colored people of America from 2111 W. Columbia Ave., Philadelphia, Pa., beginning nov. 6th to the 26th, 1906. If any man or woman of the Negro race misses hearing this greate hero of the race they will miss a fortune of knowledge and understanding, which is hard to gain in a whole life time, for he is full of sound wisdom. And the Archbishop has made ample provision and room for over seven hundred thousand of the best men and women of the whole Negro race to be unites together in this great syndicate, and everyone who comes to hear him should bring some money with them, as such opportunities as have never before come to teh colored people in America, will be offered them to take advantage of at that time, which can be seized upon by each and every person present for at least 25 or 50 cents each. Each address will appear each week in the True Light of Life Magazine, copies of it can be had for 10 cents each. 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 19061110-A Chance for the Colored People to Arise in all Parts of America-EmmaRoberts 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 1906-11-10 Title A name given to the resource A Chance for the Colored People to Arise in all Parts of America 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 Brian Schrott Summary A fellow newspaper editor from Florida praises John Mitchell Jr.’s influence on the New South, especially for his role in the Lunenburg case. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18970130.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound [Jacksonville, Fla., Advocate.] John Mitchell, Jr., editor of the Planet, Richmond, Va., though scarcely unheard of from a national standpoint, has proven to be the ideal Negro of this country. The Lunenburg murder case in which Mr. Mitchell became so conspicuous before and during the trial, commends him to all men. That he was sincere in his devotion to those whose life had been put in jeopardy by a lynching scoundrel, cannot be questioned. Men of Mr. Mitchell’s type are entitled to all the honors and support a race loving people can give. To undergo the privations and sacrifices to save human life as this great newspaper editor has done is not to be winked at. By creating a sentiment for condemned prisoners, all women, through the columns of the Planet there was a hearty response to his appeals and Mary Abernathy and Pokey Barnes are today living monument to his memory, and not in their graves. Mary Barnes, who was confined in a Virginia penitentiary and condemned for ten years to a felon’s cell, was, through the persistent effort of Mr. Mitchell’s great race journal backed by competent counsel, released, and now breathes free air once more in the old Dominion state. We need men like Mitchell and newspapers like the Planet all over this South land. Members of the colored press who are fearful of their lives because of the truth, ought to condemn evil in high places in the ranks of both races or quit the business. Our effort should be to stand by those who are willing to make the sacrifice. Mr. Mitchell’s fidelity to his race has stood him in good stead, and he is today conducting the most progressive up to date journals south of Washington. We have no right to count the cost in contending for right, and the man or men who does are simply cowards- that’s all. 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 18970130- A Colored Hero 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 1897-01-30 Title A name given to the resource A Colored Hero 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 Elizabeth Lopez-Lopez Summary Mr. McGilvray-Cox, a “colored” man, invents a “perfect” stationary engine. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP19000217.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound By invitation on last Tuesday, we visited the residence of Mr. McGilvray Cox, on Chaffin St, near Linden. After a pleasant chat with his madam we were shown a small stationary engine in complete working order. The machine has been inspected by several hundred people, many of them our best professional mechanics, both white and colored and they have pronounced it a most perfect and complete invention as they ever saw. Every particle about the engine is handmade and neatly finished. Mr. Cox says he can build them any size from one horse to a hundred horse power. Mr. Cox expects to have the engine patented and placed on the market. He is quite unobtrusive middle aged gentleman of color, with a pleasant wife and nine children. We have much sickness and several deaths in our midst. The very changeable weather has caused many people to be great sufferers from deep colds and other diseases. The doctors and the undertakers are kept on the go most all the time. This community was greatly shocked to learn of the sudden death of Mrs. Rev Thomas H. Johnson in New Kent county last Friday. The Reverend is much of a favorite among our people, having often preached for the 5th Baptist Church and conducted successful revival meetings for two weeks last spring. Some of our young men are being aroused to the real sense of organizing for business. Come together gentlemen to better your condition and not to gather money to throw it away. Owing to the very inclement weather, the Missionary meeting at the 5th Church was very slimly attendant on last Monday night. John Towns, of 1102 W. Leigh St., who has been home with his sister, Mrs. Meade and home in Amelia Co., for the past two months, left for the North last Wednesday at 5 a.m. Willie Jones of West Leigh Street, near Hancock left homes last week for N.J., to obtain work—so report says—was brought home last Tuesday dead. It is supposed that he was killed in home way yet unknown to his parents. The young man was about 18 years of age and a church member. We notice that some of our young ladies and gents are purchasing property together before they get married. We think you had better be careful and make sure of your footing first, for we already have some very sensational troubles in the community. At the same time, save your money and prepare for future comforts. The children must do what their parents could not. 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 n/a 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 1900-02-17 Title A name given to the resource A Colored Inventor 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 Cord Fox Summary After years of serving one family a former slave receives a job in the local capital building as a janitor. Item Type Article Image No URL https://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=RP18950216.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------- Topic Social Change Times Repeated Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound An Atlanta special to the Augusta Chronicle says: Governor Atkinson today made an appointment in recognition of an old servant which makes a pretty little story. The appointment was that of an old colored man named Robert Atkinson to a janitor’s place at the capitol. During the war Robert accompanied his young master, the governor’s eldest brother, John P. Atkinson, to the front. When he received the wound which caused his death it was the colored man Robert who picked his prostrate form up on the battle field and bore it away to place of safety. Later he accompanied the wounded man to his home and delivered him to his family. The Governor was but a child at the time, but the scene has never left his memory when the faithful servant arrived home with his wounded brother. Robert has always remained with the Atkinson family and when he was elected the Governor promised him a place at the capitol if he wanted it. A few days ago the request for the promised place came, and was immediately granted. 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 18950216-A Faithful Slave 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 1895-02-16 Title A name given to the resource A Faithful Slave