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The Planet believes the promotion of fair elections are “excellent” after the meeting of the Fair Elections conference in Petersburg, Virginia.

The Watson Bill passes in the Virginia Legislature, which aims to manipulate the ballot from illiterate men, who are mostly black.

This article speaks of the white reaction to the scandal of the disfranchisement faced by black voters in the 1896 presidential election.

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.

A commentary on voter fraud and disenfranchisement during the 1896 presidential election.

After laboring for weeks to eliminate African Americans voting rights the South Carolina Constitutional Convention believes they have succeeded.

In Smithers precinct, excuses are used to stop eligible black men from voting.

After black men are elected to replace white men in Norfolk’s city council, the Democrats are taken aback and backlash.

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.

John Mitchell voices his disagreements to the “unconstitutional ‘Constitutional’ Convention”.