Black Fact = 1898 – George H. White was an outspoken Republican political leader, two-term Congressman from the “Black 2nd” (northeastern North Carolina). He introduced the first anti-lynching legislation into the Congress (it was defeated), founded the first black bank, and, after leaving North Carolina in the wake of Black disenfranchisement in 1901, founded an all black community called Whiteville near Trenton, New Jersey. After White left, it would be seventy years before North Carolina sent another African American to the US Congress. #TheRaydioTwins
