<p>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.</p>

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.

1898 Wilmington: A Secondhand Jonah Hoe Printing Press

The stuff of history is all around us—it’s in what we eat and wear, where we live and play, and how we work and travel. 
The Object Project is a podcast about material culture and history, produced by history students of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, in Wilmington, NC, and Dr. Jennifer Le Zotte, assistant professor of US history and material culture.

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The stuff of history is all around us—it’s in what we eat and wear, where we live and play, and how we work and travel. The Object Project is a podcast about material culture and history, produced by history students of the University of North Carolina Wilmington, in Wilmington, NC, and Dr. Jennifer Le Zotte, assistant professor of US history and material culture.

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1898 Wilmington: A Secondhand Jonah Hoe Printing Press