White Mob Burns Wilmington's Black Newspaper, Drives Out Leadership

The Wilmington Daily Record, owned and edited by Alexander Manly — one of the only Black-owned daily newspapers in the South — is set ablaze by a white mob as part of the November 10 coup. Manly had written an editorial challenging the rape pretext for racial violence. His office is destroyed before he flees. Dozens of Black community leaders, ministers, and elected officials are forced at gunpoint onto trains and expelled from the city permanently.