EPISODE · Jan 21, 2022 · 30 MIN
1898 Wilmington: A Secondhand Jonah Hoe Printing Press
from Object Project · host UNCW Public History
UNCW history undergrad Nicole discusses the secondhand printing press used by Black newspaper editor Alex Manly to combat the white supremacist media rhetoric vilifying Black men as rapists and dishonesties politicians. Manly's press was specifically targeted in the November 1898 violence, as the perpetrators burned the building housing the machine nearly to the ground.
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UNCW history undergrad Nicole discusses the secondhand printing press used by Black newspaper editor Alex Manly to combat the white supremacist media rhetoric vilifying Black men as rapists and dishonesties politicians. Manly's press was specifically targeted in the November 1898 violence, as the perpetrators burned the building housing the machine nearly to the ground.
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1898 Wilmington: A Secondhand Jonah Hoe Printing Press
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