Alex Manly: Black Newspaper Editor of the “Wilmington Daily Record”

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Alex Manly: Black Newspaper Editor of the “Wilmington Daily Record”

Alex Manly was a black newspaper editor and Republican party leader in Wilmington. He published the Wilmington Daily Record, which described itself as 'the only negro daily in the world.' The Record covered local as well as national news and championed the interests of the black community. Manly is usually remembered for an editorial he […]

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Samuel L. Gravely is born

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4

1922

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9

1891

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12

1922

Wilt Chamberlain

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Dr. Frantz O. Fanon author, dies

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6

1961

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7

1891

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'This Far By Faith'

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1868

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1760

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