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President of the Fayetteville branch of the NAACP in July 1919

Born circa 1866 in Petersburg, Virginia. Bonner was a minister in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Born August 23, 1872, in Alamance County, North Carolina. Ray was one of a group of citizens who attempted to assault the jail in Alamance County on the night of July 19, 1920, with the intention of lynching an African American man suspected of sexual assault. Emerging from a cornfield surrounding the jail and failing to heed the repeated warnings of "stop", Ray was killed and several others were wounded when members of the Durham Machine Gun Company opened fire.

Born January 17, 1880, in Alamance County, North Carolina. He name more popularly appears as "James Dolph Long" or "J. Dolph Long." Long was an attorney who practice primarily in Graham and Burlington.

Born March 2, 1880, in North Carolina. Clarke was a minister and for a time was pastor of the First Baptist Church in High Point, North Carolina.

Born November 2, 1859, in Wilmington, North Carolina. Dudley served as president of what is now North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University from 1896 to 1925.

James Edward Cooper, born on May 8, 1874, in Williamston, North Carolina. Cooper was a tinner for the W. C. Mallison & Son, a hardware and tinner company in Washington, North Carolina.

Born February 3, 1865, in Rockingham County, North Carolina. Carrigan was a traveling salesman who resided in Greensboro, Durham, and Burlington. In July 1920, he was creditably accused of having been the leader of a lynch mob that was violently turned away from the Alamance County jail by members of the state's national guard. While his close friends took to the papers to exonerate him of the allegation, several members of the national guard testified that Carrigan was on-site throughout much of the ordeal and had been identified by the county jailer and chief of police as the mob's leader.

Born in Lenoir County, North Carolina, on September 8, 1864. During World War I, Taylor served as the chairman of the Lenoir County Liberty Loan Campaign and as a speaker for the Four Minute Men Committee.  A prominent and influential businessman in Lenoir County, Taylor proved a steadfast advocate for local and regional infrastructure and improvement projects.

Hamilton was Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania from 1748 to 154 and from 1759 to 1763.

Born October 26, 1858, near Henderson, North Carolina. Young was a skilled political influencer, serving as a state legislator representing Wake County from 1894 to 1898. During that period, he worked diligently to support Republican fusionists to their rise with the election of Daniel L. Russell to the governorship in 1896. During the Russell administration, Young served as chief fertilizer inspector and on the board of the deaf, dumb, and blind institute. At the onset of the Spanish-American War, Young's natural leadership abilities garnered him a commission as colonel of the Third North Carolina Infantry, an all-African American unit that served stateside during the conflict.

Born November 19, 1878, in South Carolina. Adkins was the assistant power house superintendent for the Tallassee Power Company at Badin, North Carolina. In 1919, he provided testimony during an investigation into the alleged abuse of Tallassee employees by management.

Born May 15, 1871, in Franklin County, North Carolina. A resident of Louisburg, Collie served as secretary of the state’s Democratic Executive Committee. Despite having no prior experience in prison administration, he was selected by governor-elect Thomas W. Bickett as the heir apparent to the superintendency of the state prison several weeks before Bickett's inauguration in January 1917. It is also important to note that Collie is related to Governor Bickett by marriage. Their wives--Eleanor Nelson Yarborough Collie and Fanny Neal Yarborough Bickett--are first cousins via their fathers, Richard Fenner Yarborough Jr. and William Henry Yarborough, respectively.

Born June 11, 1859, in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Manning served as city attorney for Durham (1886-1887), state legislator from Durham County, justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court (1909-1911), and state attorney general (1917 to 1925).

Born November 30, 1861, in Durham County, North Carolina. Mangum was a farmer and carpenter.

Born August 7, 1862, at Yadkin College in Davidson County, North Carolina. Joyner was a farmer and educator who served as state Superintendent of Public Instruction from 1902 to 1919.

Born April 13, 1873, in West Virginia. Bonsteel was a longtime New York resident who served as a soil scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Jerome Bernard Wright, born in Goldsboro, North Carolina, on December 10, 1894. Wright left his position as a school teacher at the graded school in Goldsboro when he was drafted into the army on April 27, 1918. Assigned to Company H of the all-African American 365th Infantry Regiment, Wright served overseas from June 5, 1918 to February 24, 1919. He was wounded on November 8, 1918, just three days before the armistice, and was discharged from the service on March 8, 1919, with the rank of private first class.

Jessie Binga Atkins, born in Manchester, Virginia, on September 6, 1902.

John Addie Croom, born in Wayne County, North Carolina, on December 1, 1870. Croom was a Biddle University graduate and a railroad mail clerk, professor, and real estate agent by profession. During World War I, Croom served overseas in France and England with the Y.M.C.A.

John Belton Brown, born in Newberry, South Carolina, on April 23, 1872. Brown was an episcopal minister who was called to service in Ayden, Washington, Aurora, Haddocks Cross Roads, Belhaven, and Roper (all in North Carolina) and several communities in Virginia.

Born June 3, 1868, in Pitt County, North Carolina. Grimes is best known for his long tenure (1901 to 1923) as North Carolina Secretary of State. He was commonly known, and signed his name as, J. Bryan Grimes.