Title: Alex Manly and wife, Caroline Sadgwar Manly

Identifier: 0065-b1-fa-i4   (https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/4183)

Description: Photograph of Alex Manly and his wife, Caroline Sadgwar Manly. Alex Manly was the editor of the Wilmington Daily Record in Wilmington, N.C., during the late 19th century. He was forced to flee the city on the eve of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre after they were targeted due to their publication of an editorial which enraged violent white supremacists. The office of the Daily Record was sacked and burned as about 60 individuals, mostly black, lost their lives in the following violence while the local Republican government overthrown by the white supremacist dominated Democratic one. Date approximated.