Title: Letter from Caroline Sadgwar Manly to her sons

Identifier: 0065-b1-fb   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/39014)

Description: Typescript by Milo A. Manly of a letter written by Caroline "Carrie" Sadgwar Manly in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to her sons Milo A. Manly and Lewin Manly in which she describes the 1898 Wilmington Massacre and how their father and her future husband, Alex Manly, escaped a lynching by a mob. Alex Manly was the editor of The Daily Record, an African-American owned newspaper, which was burned during the riot forcing Manly to leave Wilmington, N.C. About 60 individuals, mostly black, lost their lives in the massacre while the local Fusionist-Republican government was overthrown by the white supremacist dominated Democratic one. Date approximated.