EDWIN ROBESON MACKETHAN PAPERS, #4298, 1794-1970
Correspondence and financial and legal papers of the family of MacKethan, Democratic
politician, president of the White Supremacy Club, prohibitionist, mayor, and lawyer of
Fayetteville, North Carolina. Letters discuss abolitionists (1860-1862); race relations
(1890-1900); the disenfranchisement of blacks (1900- 1910); a court case in which a black man
was convicted of raping a white woman and was sentenced to death (1901); and the funding of
institutions of higher education for blacks in North Carolina (1925, 1929). Political papers
and legislative materials pertain to black colleges and to the white supremacy campaign of
1900-1901 in North Carolina (1874-1929).