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White union workers refuse to parade unless black workers can join, because it “is disrespectful to organized labor rather than to the colored people.”

Mitchell tells of how sightseers at Niagara falls look like members of “some awful secret society” when dressed up in the standard coats with pointed hoods.

A Chicago man sits on a cat in a restaurant and the waitstaff is required to remove it from him.

Mitchell speaks of his struggles while on a train in Georgia, as he overcomes “many threats” on his travels.

A secretary ignores the governor's recommendation to appoint a black man to lead a black regiment, which Mitchell calls a "farce of doing full justice."

Two armed “strange white men” visit a white man’s home, uninvited, and denounce southern lynchings.

Black Republicans rally against fellow white Republicans for “abandoning the principles of the party.”

A judge denies a woman the right to send her black children to white schools because of the “separate but equal” doctrine.

A white woman leaves her husband and runs off with her “colored paramour” to escape to the North.

A secretary ignores the governor's recommendation to appoint a black man to lead a black regiment, which Mitchell calls a "farce of doing full justice."