Don’t do it,” Carr wrote. “It is the lawless, vicious, bad element of the negro race that is being suppressed … the property-owners and the taxpayers will not submit to the domination of the vicious element of the black race.” Another telegram, sent to federal officials in Washington, DC, by an anonymous white supremacist in Wilmington, warned that if federal troops were sent, “Caskets should be included in their equipment.”
