MS 132 Wilmington, North Carolina, 1898 Race Riot (Newspapers)

This collection contains photocopies of issues of the Wilmington Daily Record, The Evening Dispatch, and fragments of the New York Journal around the time of and covering the Wilmington race riots in 1898. The Journal makes explicit reference to the riots in Wilmington, gives the death toll as sixteen killed, and reprints the text of the Alex Manley editorial from the Wilmington Record.