# Alexander Manly Editor and co-owner of Wilmington's *Daily Record*, widely described as the only Black daily newspaper in the United States at the time. The grandson of North Carolina governor Charles Manly and an enslaved woman, Manly became the designated villain of the 1898 white supremacy campaign after his August 18, 1898 editorial answering Rebecca Latimer Felton's pro-lynching speech — observing that some relationships between Black men and white women were consensual and that white men "are careless in the matter of protecting their women" from white predation. The editorial was reprinted and inflamed statewide for months; the [[White Declaration of Independence]] demanded his banishment by name, and the [[Wilmington Coup of 1898]] opened with the burning of his press. Manly escaped the city before the violence — reportedly passing as white at armed checkpoints — and rebuilt his life in Philadelphia. *Stub — expand with: Daily Record history, full editorial text and its propaganda career, post-exile life, family legacy.*