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Submitted to Gov. Thomas W. Bickett around July 1920 a note congratulating him on his anti-lynching efforts.

An African American man in Statesville who was stripped of his notary public commission based on his race in May 1920.

Member of the building committee of the State School for the Blind in 1920.

He signed a letter of petition to Arthur Dobbs on behalf of William Strother ca. 1763.

Born January 2, 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina. The son of Jewish immigrants from Poland, Goldstein was a lifelong Wilmington resident and merchant who led a movement to combat profiteering and overinflation of food, clothing, and housing in post-war (World War I) Wilmington.

He was an owner of the vessels Sloop Hester and Sloop Industry.

He signed a letter of petition to Arthur Dobbs on behalf of William Strother ca. 1763.

Born January 17, 1867, in Orange County, North Carolina. A lawyer by training, Mangum served in the North Carolina General Assembly in 1907, 1908, and 1919. He was a senior partner of the Gastonia-based law office of Mangum & Woltz.

Born January 22, 1888, in Cumberland County, North Carolina. At the outbreak of World War I, Raynor was a tenant farmer in Cumberland County, North Carolina.

Born July 9, 1892, in North Carolina. Lane, nee Lacy, was a stenographer in Wilson County.

Born April 3, 1883, in Lenoir County, North Carolina. Parrott was a physician in Kinston who served on the Lenoir County Exemption Board during World War I.

Born circa 1873 in North Carolina. He seems to have been a Franklinton, North Carolina, native. In 1896, Long graduated from Lincoln University's theological department. As an ordained Presbyterian minister, he served the Lexington community as principal of the segregated graded school.

Born September 15, 1870, in Rockingham County, North Carolina. Galloway was a real estate developer and president of the Winston-Salem Board of Trade. During World War I, he served on the state's western district exemption board.

He signed a petition on behalf of the residents of Anson County requesting Arthur Dobbs create and appoint a patrol group to provide protection against Native Americans who were raiding their homes and farms.

He died in 1798. Son of James McCulloch, the younger Alexander McCulloch was an auditor and councilor in North Carolina during the Seven Years War.  In 1760, he became a colonel in the Edgecombe County militia.  In that year, he also was a member of the Assembly.

He was born November 26, 1744 and died July 5, 1795. He spent most of his life in Orange County, North Carolina and served several political offices in the county. He was one of Orange County's delegates to the Provincial Congress in 1776 and later was a justice of the peace. He also served as sheriff and eventually elected to the U.S. Congress.

He sent a petition to Arthur Dobbs regarding several members of the NC militia.

Alexander Sterling Hunter, born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on January 7, 1883. A graduate of Kittrell College and Meharry Medical College, Hunter was a dentist by profession, serving Durham's black residents for several decades.

Born March 21, 1862, in Asheboro, North Carolina. McAlister was an insurance executive in Greensboro who served as a member of the State Board of Public Welfare (1916-1944). During World War I, he served as the Federal Fuel Administrator for the state.

Alfred Gordon Davis, born in February 1861 in Nova Scotia, Canada. Davis was a Presbyterian minister in Washington, North Carolina.

Born May 14, 1867, in Catawba County, North Carolina. Whitener was a businessman in Hickory, North Carolina, who variously engaged in hospitality, real estate, and furniture sales.

Born September 11, 1888, in North Carolina. In 1920, Henderson provided testimony in an investigation into an attempted lynching in Alamance County. He was employed by the Graham Water Company as a bookkeeper and later served as postmaster, a post he held for twenty-three years.

Born circa 1871 in South Carolina. Wilson was a minister in Wilmington, North Carolina.

Nephew of Buck Parrish, of Durham, NC. In the summer of 1920, Parrish lived in Graham, North Carolina, and was suspected of taking part in an attempted lynching at the Alamance County jail. During the attempted assault on the jail, members of the Durham Machine Gun Company were forced to open fire to stop the attack. Two men were wounded and one man was killed. Parrish was noticeably wounded in the days following the assault. He maintained that the gun shot wound to his knee happened on a different night and that it was the result of his accidentally dropping a loaded .45 calibre pistol on the floor.

Born January 23, 1894, in Sumner, Georgia. During World War I, Sorrell served with Company A of the 317th Machine Gun Battalion and was deployed overseas from July 1918 to June 1919. He was honorably discharged from the service in July 1919 but volunteered for the national guard the following year. As part of the Durham Machine Gun Company, Sorrell (who then held the rank of corporal) helped put down a lynch mob in Alamance County in July 1920.

Born April 24, 1873, in Scotland Neck, North Carolina. Kitchin was the brother of former governor William Walton Kitchin and U. S. Representative Claude Kitchin. A lawyer by training and profession, Kitchin served three terms in the General Assembly of North Carolina: 1907 and 1909 in the house and 1911 in the senate.