This article, published January 27, 1872, in the Daily Dispatch, details a debate on appropriations for the state’s colleges in the Virginia House of Delegates.
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Author: Richmond Daily Dispatch
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Richmond Daily Dispatch, December 15, 1876, 1.
In this letter to the editor in the December 15, 1876, issue of the Richmond Daily Dispatch, several African American legislators—including Peter Jacob Carter, James Lipscomb, John W. Poindexter, Guy Powell, and R. M. Smith—respond to James T. Fry‘s notice in the paper’s December 13, 1876, issue, which they believed questioned their character.
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Richmond Daily Dispatch, December 13, 1876, 1.
In the December 13, 1876, issue of the Richmond Daily Dispatch, James T. Fry, the proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, published this notice boasting that his hotel offered comparable accommodations to those available for whites at the same price. He was responding to African American legislators—including Peter Jacob Carter, James Lipscomb, John W. Poindexter, Guy Powell, and R. M. Smith—who left the hotel for what they deemed poor accommodations for the price.
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"The Execution Yesterday," Richmond Daily Dispatch (October 22, 1864)
In "The Execution Yesterday," published on October 22, 1864, the Richmond Daily Dispatch reports on the execution in Richmond of two enslaved African Americans accused of burglary.
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“The Yankees in Charlottesville” (March 15, 1865)
In "The Yankees in Charlottesville," an anonymous article published in the Richmond Daily Dispatch on March 15, 1865, the paper reports on Union general Philip H. Sheridan's occupation of Charlottesville at the end of the American Civil War (1861–1865).
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“Death of Gilbert Hunt,” Richmond Daily Dispatch (April 27, 1863)
In the “Death of Gilbert Hunt,” published on April 27, 1863, the Richmond Daily Dispatch reports on the death, the day before, of the African American blacksmith Gilbert Hunt.
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“A Colored Hero,” Richmond Daily Dispatch (November 30, 1858)
In “A Colored Hero,” published on November 30, 1858, the Richmond Daily Dispatch profiles the African American blacksmith Gilbert Hunt.
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Blind Billy Death Notice, Richmond Daily Dispatch (April 23, 1855)
In this short item, published on April 23, 1855, The Richmond Daily Dispatch reports on the death of the African American fifer known as Blind Billy.
