Alexander (or Alex) Manly (1866-1944) was an African-American newspaper editor in North Carolina in the late 19th century and a descendant of North Carolina Gov. Charles Manly.[1]
In 1895, he became the editor of the Wilmington Daily Record, the only African-American-owned daily newspaper in the United States in its time. Manly denounced lynching.[2]
Alexander Manly's newspaper office was destroyed in the 1898 Wilmington race riots on November 10, 1898. He was forced to flee the city to escape being murdered by a bloodthirsty white mob. Manly relocated to Philadelphia, PA. Little is definitively known about his later life, but he is known to have helped found the Armstrong Association, a forerunner of the Urban League.
His papers and pictures of at least one of his two sons are in the archives at the University of North Carolina.[3]
References
- ^ http://www.newsobserver.com/1370/story/512435.html "Lewin Manly: The injustice we never forget" Charlotte Observer and News & Observer story by Eric Frazier]
- ^ News & Observer: The Ghosts of 1898
- ^ http://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0065/ UNC archive
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