Alexander (or Alex) Manly (1866-1944) was an African-American newspaper editor in North Carolina in the late 19th century and a descendant of North Carolina Gov. Charles Manly. In 1895, he became the editor of the Wilmington Daily Record, the only African-American-owned daily newspaper in the United States in its time. Manly denounced lynching. Alexander Manly's newspaper office was destroyed in the 1898 Wilmington race riots on November 10, 1898.
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- Alexander (or Alex) Manly (1866-1944) was an African-American newspaper editor in North Carolina in the late 19th century and a descendant of North Carolina Gov. Charles Manly. In 1895, he became the editor of the Wilmington Daily Record, the only African-American-owned daily newspaper in the United States in its time. Manly denounced lynching. Alexander Manly's newspaper office was destroyed in the 1898 Wilmington race riots on November 10, 1898. He was forced to flee the city to escape being murdered by a bloodthirsty white mob. Manly relocated to Philadelphia, PA. Little is definitively known about his later life, but he is known to have helped found the Armstrong Association, a forerunner of the Urban League. His papers and pictures of at least one of his two sons are in the archives at the University of North Carolina.
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- Alexander (or Alex) Manly (1866-1944) was an African-American newspaper editor in North Carolina in the late 19th century and a descendant of North Carolina Gov. Charles Manly. In 1895, he became the editor of the Wilmington Daily Record, the only African-American-owned daily newspaper in the United States in its time. Manly denounced lynching. Alexander Manly's newspaper office was destroyed in the 1898 Wilmington race riots on November 10, 1898.
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