Alexander Manly's Newspaper Destroyed in Wilmington Coup 1898

Alexander Manly, editor of Wilmington's Daily Record — the only Black daily newspaper in the United States — was targeted by white supremacist coup leaders for an August 1898 editorial challenging the rape myth used to justify lynching. His press was burned on November 10, 1898. Manly fled to the North; he never returned. The destruction of his press symbolized the violent silencing of Black journalism across the South.