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"Butler Color Blind," Raleigh News and Observer, June 17, 1900

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BUTLER COLOR BLIND Laments Over a Mulatto Kid Thinking He's White The Amendment Disfranchises This Child, He Says. You Caught a Mulatto, Senator, Some One Replies. (Special to News and Observer) Morganton, N.C., June 16 - A small Republican…

"Negroes Trying to Register Illegally," Raleigh News and Observer, July 13, 1900

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The farce of a trial of a white registrar in Winston, inaugurated by Federal office-holders is an attempt to bulldoze with Republican methods in the South. They always rush to the Federal courts for assistance in their local affairs. The trial in…

"Senator Butler at Morganton," Raleigh News and Observer, June 19, 1900

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Senator Butler at Morganton Why he Doesn't Know a White Child from a Mullato. (Special to News and Observer) MORGANTON, N.C., June 18. - The mother of the mulatto child, who was taken up in his arms by Senator Butler on Saturday, is named Moffitt.…

"The Winston Situation," Raleigh News and Observer, July 13, 1900

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The Winston Situation Holton & Co., has a Democratic Registrar arrested by a Federal Deputy Marshal because he will not register negro boys.

Untitled Cartoon, Raleigh News and Observer, July 8, 1900

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This is the situation that we would have if the incendiary advice that Knight of Wake, Gill of Vance, McNeill of Wilkes, and other Fusion leaders are giving, should be followed by the Negroes.

"As Fusionists Think it Will Be," Raleigh News and Observer, June 27, 1900

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AS FUSIONISTS THINK IT WILL BE. "WHALE REGISTRARS AND POLL-HOLDERS." Incendiary Advice Given to Negroes by a Fusion Black and Tan Leader. State of North Carolina -- Wake County Charles T. Hester being duly sworn says that he had a conversation…

George H. White, 1852-1918

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George H. White (1852-1918) was a Republican Congressman from the Second District of North Carolina and the only African-American Representative in Congress between 1898 and 1901. Before assuming this national office, White served as a State…

Marion Butler, 1863-1938

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Marion Butler (1863-1938) served as the Chairman of the Populist Party in North Carolina during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as well as a United States Senator from 1895-1901. He helped to negotiate an alliance between the…

"Cartoons Are For All," Raleigh News and Observer, June 14, 1900

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In a speech in Lexington last Saturday, so we are informed, State Chairman Holton, of the Republican committee, paid his respects to the editor of the News and Observer, and said that he had to teach his Democratic subscribers by means of cartoons…