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A teenaged “colored” boy is shot and killed in Wytheville after a fight with a white boy and the officers trying to arrest him.

A black man is “brutally murdered by a gang of white hoodlums” in New Orleans.

A white man commits a murder of his black coworker over an argument.

A Canadian Minister from Montreal writes to John Mitchell Jr. complementing him on how he bravely champions “the rights of the black race.”

The Planet encourages every black person to hear Archbishop Justus J. Evans speak “for the purpose of delivering the helpless from evil.”

A group of unjustly imprisoned black women and a man wait in prison for retrial.

A band of horsemen in Alabama threaten the black population because they believe they are taking their jobs and dislike the fact that the farmers are protecting and hiring them.

A black owned bank fails and the reasons are unknown.

Augustine Joseph McNorton establishes the first black Catholic newspaper in Washington, D.C.

During severe thunderstorms, a lightning strike kills a black girl near Eastville Pearl Church.