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John Mitchell, Jr., gives a powerful speech drawing on his intense experiences of oppression growing up, gaining support and respect on behalf of the black community.

The Committee on Roads of the legislature of Virginia reviews a new bill for segregated streetcars. Most whites oppose the bill, especially the conductors who must enforce it.

Recent corruption in the Richmond Baptist Church charges Mitchell with committing a crime “against the church, against the cause of Christ, against the Baptist denomination and against the Negro race.”

Florida tries to pass a bill abolishing the Fifteenth Amendment. Black people will no longer be allowed to vote if the bill passes.

An advertisement in the Planet shows that beer helps to overcome “shades of crime, disease, and poverty.”

Two men are identified and arrested as bank robbers and “leaders of the “Black Hand” in this region.”

The highlights of Booker T. Washington’s famous “Democracy and Education” speech are transcribed.

The Richmond Dispatch continues to support “Jim Crow Car” bill, but urges the presence of “colored women.”

A black woman from New York draws a “knife and made a long Johnson-street razzoo swipe” at the conductor after he demands she sit in the back according to Jim Crow laws.

The Planet emphasizes the racism of the Richmond Dispatch and talks about their “chronic attacks of Negro-phobia.”