Alexander Lightfoot Manly was a Black newspaper editor, writer, and outspoken advocate for civil rights during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Manly became the editor of the Daily Record, North Carolina’s only Black-owned newspaper at the time, in 1895 and served in this position until the paper’s printing location was destroyed in the Wilmington Massacre and Coup d’état of 1898. After the paper was destroyed, Manly was marched to the train station by the white supremacists and forced to leave town.
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This lesson explores the Wilmington Massacre and Coup d’état of 1898 by examining the events and political environment leading up to and the people and groups involved in the massacre and coup.
