In the late 1890s, Wilmington, North Carolina, a port city between the Atlantic’s barrier ... Across the South, such activity had triggered deadly white violence against Black voters, organizers ...

Wilmington, which had a Black majority of 56% in the 1890s, became a majority-white city. In Alex Manly, editor of The Daily Record, and Caroline "Carrie" Sadgwar Manly. Circa 1920. 1899 ...