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THOMAS W. CLAWSON PAPERS, #2792-z, 1898

Undated recollections of Clawson, then city editor of the Wilmington, North Carolina, Messenger, who was an eyewitness to the Wilmington race riot of November 1898. The collection also includes a notarized copy of the editorial concerning southern womanhood by black editor Alexander L. Manly, which preceded the riot.