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treasurer. Washington was also a primary player in the group. Tensions rose in
Wilmington during this period, and Dancy's position on an organization in opposition to legislation which prevented interracial marriages increased the tension. Tension came to a head in November with the
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Dancy died on the morning of
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General Conference of the AME Zion church in 1892, to be succeeded by George W. Clinton. Instead, that year Dancy took the position as editor of the
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Dancy was a prominent layman in the A. M. E. Zion church and was a lay delegate to the general conferences of the church in 1880 and 1884. He was also a prominent
139:(May 8, 1857 – December 5, 1920) was an American politician, journalist, and educator in North Carolina and Washington, D.C. For many years he was the editor of
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America, 1880–1915: Racial ideologies in the age of Booker T. Washington. Vol. 118. University of Michigan Press, 1963. p234, 252
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Washington Home, The New York Age (New York City) December 11, 1920, page 2. Retrieved February 2, 2017, at
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Struggle Before the NAACP. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, p83
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