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Ex-Governor Charles O’Ferrall indignantly cries out against implementing a “literacy test” for voters, thus denying the uneducated suffrage.

The Republican Convention at Lynchburg votes in favor of having separate meetings and delegates for blacks, but it does not seem to give them any more say in the government.

African American voting rights are challenged by the Lily-White Movement, but The Planet believes the black community must “do it death” and stick to their convictions.

WM. Lloyd Garrison demands equal suffrage and that the constitution should be upheld in a meeting for “colored leaders” in the country.

A meeting was held in New York to discuss suffrage, and the goal was to achieve "righteous liberty of political action without distinction or color.

The Planet criticizes the Constitutional Convention members for a lack of justice and “following a dark and torturous way.”

Virginian Legislators move to hold a Constitutional convention in order to “disfranchise” African American voters

An editor of a newspaper in New York asks John Mitchel’s opinion about the effect of disfranchisement.

White men continue to disenfranchise black men while the white newspaper defends the “law abiding” white opinion.

Maryland disenfranchises 30,000 “Negroes” through literacy tests.