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

White political leaders target the black community with educational requirement to vote.

The Democratic Party of Virginia” holds an “unconstitutional ‘Constitutional’ Convention” to discuss how blacks are the “‘hindering cause’ in the way of a pure election”.

Mitchell condemns the Richmond Times Dispatch for inconsistencies, and says that it has "dropped to the advocacy of a national wrong."

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

Votes for a primary election in Henrico County, Virginia, are publicly being sold without challenges to the lawfulness of the act.

Men are convicted of electoral fraud in precincts in Henrico county, and receive a fine of $10 and one day in jail.

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 poses questions regarding the fairness of elections in the Richmond area.

The Attorney General of Virginia argues that it is lawful to present several types of ballots, though the law states that there should only be one.