"If it ever happens, run."
Criminal
The Disinformation and Propaganda Campaign of Josephus Daniels
The Wilmington Daily Record was reported to be the only daily black newspaper in the country. Josephus Daniels would stay up until two or three in the morning, writing racist editorials that he hoped would incite readers into what he called a fever heat. He published reams of completely false stories of an alleged rape epidemic of white women by black men. There was no epidemic at all, but they just printed false stories or played up incidental contact between a black man and a white woman into rape.
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