alex manley was incensed, he heard about this, sat down the day he heard about it in august and wroteincendiary editorial that absolutely shocked the white supremacists and whites across the south, and essentially he said that most black men who were lynched were supposedly raped white men, in fact, they're consensual lovers and secondly he pointed out what everyone knew, and put it in writing, white men had been raping black women for generations with impunity. this incensed the white community and the vigilantes, the red shirts wanted to lynch him that day. to show you how premeditated, no, this is too early, this will have a much greater political impact if we wait until closer to the election in november, then you can lynch manley, and burn down his newspaper. they did burn down his newspaper but he was warned a couple of days beforehand that a lynch mob was looking for him. he fled and escaped and never went back. >> rebecca felton is the woman you're talking about, and you know, she really was -- she was on one level a feminist, a suffragist, and then on the other hand, she was

that are was an editorial in the african-american paper, the daily record by the editor of it, alex manley had written something that provoked the white wilmington. >> he was the grandson of a white governor but he lived his life as a black man and was a very aggressive journalist and he started daily, black readership newspaper in wilmington in august of 1898, he read a speech from a white congressman in georgia in which she said the solution for so-called race epidemic, which there is no epidemic but she said there was in the solution she said was the lynch group and she said i say lynch if necessary and she was telling the men of georgia they needed to go start glitching blackman. alex manley heard about this and he sat down the day he found out about it in august and wrote an editorial that absolutely shocked the white supremacists and whites across the south and essentially he said most black men who were clenched were supposedly raping white women. he pointed out what everyone knew what he wanted in writing that white men had been raping black men for generations with impunity. this

. >> alex manley was actually the grandson of a white governor but he lived his life as a black man and he was a very aggressive journalist and he started a daily black readership is favoring wilmington in august of 1898 and he read a speech from a white congressman in georgia in which he said the solution in the so-called race epidemic on white women and black men but there was no epidemic but she said there was in the solution she said was the lynch rope. and she said i say lynch a thousand times a week net if necessary she was telling the men of georgia they needed to go after this to stop this race epidemic. any heard about this and he sat down today he found out about it in august and he wrote a very much an editorial that was absolutely shocking to the white supremacist and white across the south and was reprinted across the south essentially he said that most black men who were mentioned were supposedly raping white women in fact, they were consensual and secondly he pointed out when everyone knew, but he put it in writing that iceman had an raping lack women generations with imp