What were the events that led to the Wilmington Massacre? 

a group of the state's white Southern Democrats conspiring and leading a mob of 2,000 white men to overthrow the legitimately elected local Fusionist biracial government in Wilmington. They began seeing blacks as a threat. They had skills that helped them find higher pay jobs, some were becoming politicians. Whites began seeing this a a threat and they had to do something.

How does slander, lies, and propaganda from the Wilmington Star and The Wilmington Messenger contribute to the massacre and the burning of the The Daily Record office building? 

As blacks were becoming more in power whites were intimidated. Blacks had their own all black newspaper which was rare in these areas. White people did not influence this. They knew they had to do something about it.

Who was Alexander Manly and why was he significant to the events of the Wilmington Massacre? 

Alexander Manly was the editor to the Daily Record news. On August 18, an editorial was published stating that African Americans were unfairly portrayed as violent and that that they can and should have consensual physical relationship between blacks and whites. The whites got a hold of this and they called it Vile and Villainous" and "An Insult to the White Women of North Carolina."